STM Kokua Foods distributed over 10,000lbs of fresh produce, grocery, dairy, bread, frozen foods, and canned goods and other nonperishable items to 125 Takoma Park and 150 Rockville families in need this November. This month we were excited to welcome the families at Wheaton Woods ES Elementary SchoolWheaton Woods PTA (WWES) to join TPMS, TPES, PBES, RTES, and MBHS in our monthly distributions. We are grateful to our partners at Wegmans Germantown, Wegmans Woodmore, Imperfect Foods, and the TPSS Co-op for their generous food donations, to Silver Spring Cares for donating 50 amazing casseroles to us, to the Nugent family for their weekly donation of a grocery bag of nonperishable foods, to TP Brownie Troop #34039 who served at our RTES distribution and donated rice and dry beans for the families there, to Wegmans Germantown for a special donation of scarves, wraps, bags, and holiday items for all of our families, and to U-Haul Moving & Storage in Takoma Park for donating the use of their trucks to us. Special thanks to our distribution partner Bryan Goehring & Difference Makers/TPMS, and site managers Doris Duarte/Hampshire Tower Apts and Helen Winder/WWES. Thanks also to our STM members (Lana, Jacob, Sam, Jacinto, and Abigail) for helping with the distribution as well as giving out new books at TPMS and RTES, student volunteers (Yacouba, Everett, Alejandro, Precious, and Hadrian), and adult volunteers (Mayor Kate Stewart, WWES Principal Daman Harris, Bean Paul, Seth Grimes, Stephen Whitney, Ken Allen, Sarah Stella, Luis Almar, Thomas Jacob, Wei Li, Leandra Nichola, Taylor Dibbert, Aurelie Bush , Kevin Buchanan, Yajaira Garay, Enrique Garay, Erin Malia, Wendy Kent, Kia Robinson, Tyrone Robinson, Margaret Sutton, Doug Disrud, Jeff Diamant, and John Anderson) for their tireless dedication and hard work.
We would love to have more help for our food recovery efforts. If you are interested please contact us! www.smallthingsmatter.org