Providing food, promoting dignity.
Loaves & Fishes Rhode Island, 1520 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02905 • C: (401) 578-6508 • Email Us
Copyright © 2023 • Loaves & Fishes RI • All rights reserved.
Providing food, promoting dignity.
Loaves & Fishes Rhode Island, 1520 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02905 • C: (401) 578-6508 • Email Us
Copyright © 2023 • Loaves & Fishes RI • All rights reserved.
The good news is that LFRI continued to conduct direct service to our homeless brothers and sisters in need, post Covid-19, with expanded Saturday canteen truck runs to Woonsocket and new Sunday canteen truck runs to Providence. We did this while continuing with a host of other ways of serving, as started during Covid-19, to homeless shelters, schools and youth centers. In these deliveries we provided love, compassion, food (Often hot), clothing and other essentials.
In total LFRI’s twelve member churches, with the help of many loyal volunteers, have conducted 280 (Serving about 13,500 persons) vehicle delivery runs in the twelve months of 2023. The following is a summary of these deliveries by category of delivery:
Canteen Truck. We did 93 Saturday and Sunday noon runs to a Bus Station in Woonsocket and Kennady Plaza in Providence. Serving individuals directly.
Volunteer Vehicles. Included in the above number were 150 car-type drop ship deliveries to soup kitchens and homeless shelters in Rhode Island.
Adopt a School Program. 30 of the above runs were to elementary and middle schools in the East Providence and East Greenwich areas, providing food, clothing and books for needy school children. Some of these runs were via our canteen truck, and others involved coordinated drop-offs to schools where social workers had identified families in need.
Youth Center Deliveries. Each Friday in the summer volunteer family lunch deliveries were made to youth centers in Providence. This included 7 runs via our canteen truck.
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 tax-exempt donation to our non-profit 501(c)(3) Loaves & Fishes Rhode Island. You can do so via PayPal on our website at www.lfri.org or by mail, checks made out to LFRI, and mailed 1520 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02905, attention Bill Aldrich. We encourage donations in memorial of the passing of your loved ones and in commemoration of special events in life.
Many thanks for your support and God Bless.