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Trauma isn’t pretty — and neither is hunger.

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SOS INITIATIVES

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SOS Initiatives weekly delivers free food to qualifying inter-generational households who do not have a car. SOS Initiatives has a volunteer, mobile, federally-approved program, dedicated to fighting hunger while reducing food waste. 43% of food in America is wasted while 52% percent of Americans are hungry multiple times per week. SOS adheres to strict contracts while partnering with contracted restaurants. We turn surplus food into community support — reducing waste while providing reliable, nutritious meals to people who need them most.. year round.

What We Do

We are a "food gap" program delivering free food to inter-generational households who have no car.

THE PROBLEM

Missing parents of youth is a reality and has increased exponentially over the past few years… missing due to incarceration, sickness, death, addictions… or simply missing and have left young children traumatized and grieving. Sometimes grandparents are willing to take the children into their homes, but feeding them everyday presents a barrier. (The Meals On Wheels program feeds seniors only) SOS can sometimes bridge the food gap issue with it’s novel program of help and weekly free food delivered to the door of qualifying inter-generational households that do not have a car.

THE SOLUTION

Select restaurant headquarters liked SOS's proposed idea, that enabled grassroots philanthropic efforts within the law and without the liability and heavy costs of feeding hungry the hungry. SOS conducted due diligence for passing background checks & driver checks, conducted all mandatory Federal FDA food & safety continuous training as well as heavy lifting training with PPE body gear for volunteers. After a year of probation, SOS passed with flying colors. Participating donor restaurants have come to look forward to SOS food donation pickups multiple times per week and are proud to participate in legally feeding the hungry, without the added work and without the liability. “Volunteer drivers deliver collected food directly to community members, ensuring meals reach those in need quickly, safely, and with a personal touch.”

THE IMPACT

In the last 12 months, SOS received and dispersed 41.7 tons of cooked-then-frozen nutritious restaurant food… yes, 41.7 tons, while-keeping SOS five volunteer driver teams safe & up to date with mandatory training for FDA compliance courses while creating community leaders- helped thwart child foster care system candidates as SOS weekly delivers food to the door because Grandparent households we serve have no car in the household…. And, SOS delivers year-around without fail!. 4 volunteer driver teams treat our recipients with great dignity and service compassionately using their personal vehicles delivering to ~10 HH’s on each of their routes -40 HH’s with 4 individuals per equals 160 fed weekly, year-around

Key Benefits We Want to Emphasize

1. Using specialty contracts with donor restaurants, multiple times per week SOS is scheduled to pickup cooked-then-frozen unsold food held in freezers for the sole purpose of SOS’s Gap Food project.

2. SOS’s passionate driver teams adhere to all FDA food & safety compliance measures while handling frozen cooked food.  The dedicated compassionate care that our driver teams exhibit consistently makes people we serve feel dignified & respected while accepting help of the free food deliveries they need to hold grieving families together due to missing parents.

3. Our volunteer drivers is what makes it all work time after time using their personal vehicles. The stipends SOS gives helps defray driver cost of gasoline, vehicle cleaning and safety equipment are critical to the entire operation of delivering free food.

4. The population Granny Lift Project targets is a very vulnerable population.  Missing parents creates a toll on society and when senior grandparents are willing to step in to help their grieving grandchildren, then it is a pleasure to help overcome the barrier of feeding the growing kids, with little money and no car in the household.  Yay Granny Lift drivers!

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