Food for All DC

About

Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that strives to provide food to low income home-bound residents in real need.

Story

Food for All DC (FFA) is a non-profit organization providing groceries to poor home-bound residents throughout the District, primarily the elderly and people with disabilities, and also to under-served single parent families.

FFA is entirely a volunteer run organization. FFA needs volunteers every Saturday morning to pack and/or deliver food to our clients throughout DC. This is a great chance to help appreciative people, meet a bunch a great folks, and explore DC.

Volunteers can choose to come for all the activities or just a portion of the work, they are most needed around 9:30 to drive a delivery route. Volunteers start at 9:00 by helping pack up boxes with food items. Then starting around 9:30, we begin loading the boxes into volunteers’ cars. Even if you do not have a car to drive, you can volunteer to go out with a driver to help them navigate and carry boxes. A typical delivery route consists of 5-8 boxes and is geographically clustered to reduce the time needed to complete the deliveries. Most volunteers are done by 11:00am.

Mission

Food for All DC is a non-profit charity that provides food to low income home-bound residents in real need. Our clients are generally elderly citizens, handicapped, or single mothers with young children. The operation is entirely volunteer operated, with the assistance of federal and other agency grants.