Hunger and Homelessness Task Force

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The SHOEBOX PROJECT is now the Backpack Project!
Saturday and Sunday, December 9th and 10th 2023.

Once again, we invite you to help assemble over 1000 backpacks, filled with gifts of warm hats, warm gloves and personal hygiene items for our vulnerable neighbors. Contact CJ Lewis at 202-704-4430 for more information.

Volunteering for a few hours on the weekend of December 9-10 is a wonderful way to pass on the spirit of the Season. It is also a great way to meet up with Friends. Hope to see you!!

If you prefer you can take a “kit” home to assemble and bring back. Call the office at 202-483-3310 and let us know which day and what time you would like to come to the meeting house.

Each December, we assemble and fill about 1000 shoeboxes with warm hats, warm gloves and an assortment of practical items for our vulnerable neighbors. Merry Christmas!

Click HERE to donate to the Shoebox Project (be sure to designate your contribution for this purpose).

 

Gifts wrapped in comic pages

 

 

Going to the shelter with presents 

Boxes filled with practical items--and candy

Photos by Jenifer Morris Photography

The Hunger and Homelessness Task Force participates in the following projects and meets on the fourth Sunday of each month in the Decatur Place Room at noon. Please feel welcome to join us.

For information about any of these events, please use our "Contact Us" page.

Click this link to see a list of committee members.

 

MEAL PROGRAMS


CHRIST HOUSE DINNER: Volunteers prepare and serve dinner to about 50 men on the fourth Sunday of each month from 3:30 PM until about 7 PM at Christ House, 1717 Columbia Rd., NW, a residential medical care facility for homeless men.

CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS LUNCH: Four volunteers prepare and serve lunch for about 40 homeless people at the Church of the Pilgrims, 2201 P St. NW,  two blocks south of Friends Meeting of Washington. Volunteers are invited to help set up from 11 AM to noon and /or serve from 12:45 PM to 2:00 PM on the first Sunday of each month. 

The GRATE PATROL (SOUP MOBILE) On the first Wednesday of each month, Friends are needed to help with as much as they feel comfortable providing. We buy food for 120 (fruit, bread, hard boiled eggs and cookies) prepare sandwiches in the Decatur Place Room from about 5:30 to 6:30 PM, then bag the sandwiches and and serve with chili around town from the Salvation Army van between around 6:45 and 8:30 PM. Contact Alan W. Field" alanwfield@gmail.com or Louisa Terrell, louisa.terrell@gmail.co

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FOOD BASKETS: Baskets are placed in the halls on First Day for food donations to Martha's Table, which provides meals to homeless children and to children in the Columbia Heights area. Nonperishable items in boxes or cans are needed.