Vehicle Runs. LFRI’s eleven member churches, with the help of many loyal volunteers, have conducted 198 vehicle delivery runs in the past ten months. The following is a summary of these deliveries:
Canteen Truck. Beginning In May we resumed direct to client deliveries via our canteen truck at noon to Woonsocket each Saturday in each month. This totaled 26 deliveries.
Member Vehicles. Included in the above number were 135 car-type drop ship deliveries to soup kitchen and homeless shelters in Providence.
Adopt a School Program. 16 of the above runs were to middle schools in the East Providence area, providing food, clothing and books for needy school children.
Youth Center Deliveries. Each Friday in the summer volunteer family lunch deliveries were made to youth centers in Providence. This included 6 runs via our canteen truck.
Soups for the needy. On three occasions, amounting to 15 of the above runs, we delivered a total of 1,200 4lb frozen soup bags($4,800 lbs) to some 6 homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Providence.
The above deliveries were made possible by the donations and grant funds we received. If you would like to support our continuation of the above efforts, please consider a donation to our non-profit 50(c)(3) Loaves & Fishes Rhode Island. You can do so via PayPal on our website www.lfri.org or by mail, checks made out to LFRI, to LFRI 1520 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02905, attention Bill Aldrich.
Many thanks and God Bless.
