Save Our Outreach - Freezer Fund
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Help us save our outreach! We need a large, upright freezer!
We learned that Panera gives their bread away each night to charities who feed people, so we called our local store manager and asked how to get set up to pick up bread for our outreach. The manager told us she'd put us on the schedule for Friday nights. We have been picking up bread every Friday night since August, and delivering it to needy families each Saturday.
We learned two weeks ago that the manager is GONE, and she didn't have the authority to the schedule, the NWLA Food Bank does. The Food Bank didn't know about us and scheduled another charity who feeds people to pick up on Fridays.
We called the Food Bank and explained the situation. The Food Bank is allowing us to continue picking up bread but our day is now Monday. But this presents a huge problem:
Because Panera is awesome - there are NO preservatives in their bread, so it is all spoiled before Saturday. We need a large, upright freezer so that we can store the bread from Monday to Saturday.
Without the freezer - we have to stop. The charity who is now picking up on Fridays can't pick up on Mondays, and when it comes to feeding people, it's not "us or them".
This is me and my husband with several of my coworkers serving a meal in downtown Shreveport.
Please help, if you can. We love our roles as the Bread Fairy and this is the only way we can continue.
We learned that Panera gives their bread away each night to charities who feed people, so we called our local store manager and asked how to get set up to pick up bread for our outreach. The manager told us she'd put us on the schedule for Friday nights. We have been picking up bread every Friday night since August, and delivering it to needy families each Saturday.
We learned two weeks ago that the manager is GONE, and she didn't have the authority to the schedule, the NWLA Food Bank does. The Food Bank didn't know about us and scheduled another charity who feeds people to pick up on Fridays.
We called the Food Bank and explained the situation. The Food Bank is allowing us to continue picking up bread but our day is now Monday. But this presents a huge problem:
Because Panera is awesome - there are NO preservatives in their bread, so it is all spoiled before Saturday. We need a large, upright freezer so that we can store the bread from Monday to Saturday.
Without the freezer - we have to stop. The charity who is now picking up on Fridays can't pick up on Mondays, and when it comes to feeding people, it's not "us or them".
This is me and my husband with several of my coworkers serving a meal in downtown Shreveport.
Please help, if you can. We love our roles as the Bread Fairy and this is the only way we can continue.
Organizer
Paige Kochis Bass
Organizer
Bossier City, LA
