Cook lunch for seniors at Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly

Join Fight2Feed as we help cook a delicious lunch for seniors at Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly. The main goal of the senior lunch is to relieve isolation and loneliness among the elderly by providing a great meal in a very social interactive space.

This is a monthly project taking place usually on the first or second Saturday of the month.

Volunteers will meet at their main office location at
355 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607.

We will start cooking at 8 am and be ready to serve by noon. We will cook 80 meals to serve on site and also cook an extra 50 meals to deliver to Holy Trinity Church near by that will feed our homeless neighbors.
Volunteers will meet in the kitchen.

Please dress appropriately to work in a kitchen. Wear closed toe shoes with non slip bottoms, like sneakers. Slacks, jeans. or long pants. No shorts or tank tops allowed. You will be asked to wear a hair net or you can bring a baseball cap to manage your hair. You can also bring your own apron if you own one.

There is some free street parking in the area, usually west of Ashland Ave. It is also near CTA bus routes.

About our organizations:
A 501(C)(3) organization, Fight2Feed’s mission is to make a difference by changing the rise of food insecure communities by fighting hunger one block at a time. The non-profit has over 650 volunteers with presence in Chicago, Kansas City, San Diego, Atlanta and Indianapolis. For more information, to donate or volunteer, visit fight2feed.org (http://fight2feed.org/), like on Facebook (http://facebook.com/fight2feed) or follow on Twitter (http://twitter.com/fight2feed).

Fight2Feed combines donated restaurant resources with the mobility of food trucks and volunteer driven cars to delivery food to where food is needed the most in our city. Our organization is 100% volunteer run and supported. We have served over 55,000 meals to people in need in the last 3 years, and have rescued thousands of pounds of surplus food in 2017 from restaurants and other events to be redistributed to hungry citizens in need.

Since 1959, Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly, Chicago Chapter’s mission, philosophy, programs and activities remain focused on alleviating loneliness among elders. The need for social interaction is critical to the human spirit—we believe that nurturing the soul is as important as feeding the body. And, while the number of elders served has grown by more than 35% in the last five years, our mission remains firm – to relieve isolation and loneliness among the elderly.

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly was started in France in 1946 by Frenchman Armand Marquiset as les petits frères des Pauvres (Little Brothers of the Poor). The organization served elderly Parisians who had lost their savings and family members in World War II. His motto, flowers before bread, expresses the spirit that man does not live by bread alone; it is the human touch that makes life worth living.

Today, Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly serves elderly in seven US cities and eight countries around the world. The Chicago Chapter is located at 355 N. Ashland Avenue in a multi-purpose facility purchased in 1998. This facility is transformed regularly into a place of celebration for holidays, Wednesday luncheons, and countless social gatherings held all year long.

Here are the cooking dates for 2019:

January 5
February 2
March 9
April 13
May 4
June 1
July 13
August 3
September 7
October 5
November 2
December 7