Caring for Friends (Formerly Aid for Friends)
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Help us meet our snack bag quota for March!
While we still have a goal of 200 meals and 50 soups for March, there is a tremendous need for snack bags. We have the goal of 500 snack bags in March, double our usual number, and we need your help.
The items we need are listed below. It helps if you can sign up on the Signup Genius, so we know how much we have coming. You can drop them off in the plastic bins in the entrance to the church or in the convent garage.- Granola/protein bars
- Juice boxes
- Oatmeal packets
- Hot chocolate or tea packets
- Fruit/veggie squeeze pockets
- Packs of PB crackers or Oreos
- Caring notes
- Gallon-size ziploc baggies
We welcome your help putting the snack bags together on March 27th at 1:30. If you are interested, please sign up through the Signup Genius link on this page.
If you have any questions, please text Colleen Curry (215) 439-7888, and thank you for helping provide help to people in need!
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“I was hungry and you gave Me food. I was thirsty and you gave Me drink.” (Matt. 25:35)
Do you like to cook? Or maybe you like to drive? Even if you just want to help by putting together snack bags with the kids, you could help people in need while doing something you enjoy. You don't have to be a parishioner or even Catholic to volunteer for Caring for Friends, an organization which provides food and friendship to seniors, kids and adults in th
e 5-county Philadelphia region.
You can help by making meals, soups, or Snack Bags, volunteer to drive extra meals to other freezer sites, or volunteer to be a visitor. We don’t have a great need of visitors in our parish, but we always need meals and snack bags. CFF requests a variety of types of meals, including vegetarian.
Meal-tray tins and supplies are provided in the church and the convent garage. Cooking volunteers fill the tins with meals and bring them to the freezer in the convent garage.
If you don’t want to cook but you still want to help, you can put together snack bags and drop them off in the convent garage. Volunteer drivers take the meals and snack bags to regional freezers once or twice a month.
Please see the attached documents and helpful video below for more information how to prepare the meals or snack bags. If you know of anyone who would benefit from our ministry or if you’re interested in helping, please sign up on this page to get helpful updates, or contact us!
Contact Colleen Curry: curryhome@me.com
Questions? Email Colleen or text her at (215) 439-7888.
UPDATE Feb. 2022
New Look for Meal Kits
The cost of the materials for the Meal Kits has increased by 50%, so Caring for Friends has streamlined the kits. When you prepare the meals, they will no longer have aluminum foil or be in plastic bags. Rather, you will seal them with the cover provided with each kit by crimping down the sides of the aluminum pan. We have made some meals with the new kits and they are actually easier to use, and take up less space.
View the documents and watch the helpful video below! -
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Recent Messages
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a month agoHi everyone here is a photo from the 3/27 Snack Bag Event - thanks again to everyone who helped !
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a month agoHi everyone - thanks so much for everyone's hard work and donations in March - we made 1032 snack bags (our goal was 1000), 283 meals (our goal was 200) and 102 soups (our goal was 50)! I wanted to...
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2 months agoThanks to everyone who has donated meals, soups and snack bags so far in March ! This is friendly reminder, if you can donate materials for snack bags and/or join us to put them together on March 27,
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2 months agoHi Everyone - We need your help to make snack bags for Caring For Friends by signing up to donate the items listed below. You can drop them off in the plastic bins in the entrance to the Church or in...
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