Youth Food Needs for Friendship House
We just started up summer activities for the youth living around the Friendship House. They came over for the first time this past Monday. Three came over and hung out for about 2.5 hours.
During their time, the three of them consumed eight sodas and seven bags of chips. I quickly did math and realized that I needed to make another run to Sam’s Club and load up.
My math was reinforced when eight came over Tuesday and just tore through the food.
These youth do not have the opportunity to “graze” at home and eat and drink until they are full. We all know how much teenagers eat – I’ve certainly been reminded.
We could use infusions of:
- Soda: Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, and Pepsi are favorites.
- Fruit drinks: CapriSun, Hi-C, etc.
- Chips: The individual bags seem to work well and cut down on messes and germs.
- Other snacks such as Cheez-its, Graham Crackers, etc.
- Ramen Noodles
- Easy-Mac
This will be a standing need. These youth don’t have the best home situations and would rather hang out at the Friendship House. Anything we as an Association can do to make it a home for them will go a long way.
Thank you, and God bless.
-Nathan
