STM Kokua Foods distributed 10,230 lbs of fresh produce, grocery, dairy, bread, frozen foods, canned goods and other nonperishable items to food insecure families this January serving students at Takoma Park ES, Piney Branch ES, Rolling Terrace ES, Wheaton Woods ES, Takoma Park MS, and Montgomery Blair HS. We are grateful to our food partners at Wegmans Germantown, Wegmans Woodmore, Imperfect Foods, TPSS Co-op, KOL Foods, U-Haul Moving & Storage for donating the use of their truck, The Nugent family for their weekly donation of a grocery bag of nonperishable foods, Margie Billian for her donation of fleece gloves, The Elinoff family, The Degasperis family, and AmeriCorps The Choice Program at UMBC for volunteering with 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, Abigail, Jacinto, Luis, Yeni, and Gabriel) for helping with the distribution as well as giving out new books at TPMS and RTES, student volunteers (Yacouba and Hadrian), and adult volunteers (WWES Principal Daman Harris, Wendy Kent, Jeff Diamante, Seth Grimes, Stephen Whitney, Ken Allen, Jim Douglas, Sarah Stella, Luis Almar, Thomas Jacob, Wei Li, Leandra Nichola, Taylor Dibbert, Sawa Kamara, Aurelie Bush, Kevin Buchanan, Yajaira Garay, Enrique Garay, Pia Acol, Iris Antezana, Mr. Seid, Ms. Perez, Ms. Bonilla, Mr. Kassaye, Anthony Murray, Jill Nicolas, Kia Robinson, Margaret Sutton, Robin Hernandez, and John Anderson) for their tireless dedication and hard work.
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