Food for Families

Monday  - Two volunteers leave OLMC at 12:30 pm for 1:00 pm pick-up from 
    Walmart in Poway, 30-45 minutes to load up van. Return to OLMC 
  - Sort donated food - Bread, Bagels stored in garage, some fruits, vegetables 
     stored in refrigerator, Meat in freezer. Spoiled food in trash 
  - Estimated 3 volunteer hours (Depends on amount of donated food) 
  
Tuesday  - Most volunteers attend the 8:00 am mass 
  - One volunteer leaves OLMC after mass to pick-up food from Albertsons 
    in Rancho Bernardo using the truck. Donated food from Albertsons 
    is consistently smaller than what we get from Walmart 
  - Estimated 2 volunteer hours for Albertsons pick-up 
  
  - Volunteers continue to sort, transfer food from platic crates to cardboard 
    boxes then load the van for delivery to the nuns. 
  - This delivery will include the donated food from Albertsons. 
  - Estimated 2 volunteer hours for sorting, packaging and loading 
    depending on the number of volunteers. 
  - Estimated 3 volunteer hours for delivery

Wednesday – One or two volunteers leaves OLMC at 8:20 using the van to pick food from the Feeding America’s mobile site located at the Foundry Community Church 120 N Ash St. Escondido they usually have 3 or four selections of produce. Store food in refrigerator
Estimated 2 volunteer hours

Thursday - One or two volunteers leave OLMC at 6:30 using the van to pick food from Jimbo’s located at 12841 El Camino Real Suite 100, on the border of Del Mar-San Diego. Store food in refrigerator or the freezer for meat.
Estimated 2 volunteer hours 
  
Friday - One volunteer leaves OLMC at 9:00 am to pick-up food from Albertsons
    in Rancho Bernardo using the truck. Donated food from Albertsons
    is consistently smaller than what we get from Walmart
  - Sort donated food - Bread, Bagels stored in garage, some fruits, vegetables
     stored in refrigerator, Meat in freezer. Spoiled food in trash
  - Estimated 2 volunteer hours for Albertsons pick-up   
  - One volunteer leaves OLMC at 12:30 pm for 1:00 pm pick-up from
    Walmart in Poway, 30-45 minutes to load up van. Return to OLMC
  - Sort donated food - Bread, Bagels stored in garage, Fruits, vegetables
     stored in refrigerator, Meat in freezer. Spoiled food in trash
Two volunteers needed at 1:00 to load van with food produce and bakery items only from the refrigerator and garage while waiting for the Walmart volunteer to return. Load produce and bakery items from Walmart in the van. Delivery to Canyon Rim Apartments (just north of OLMC)10845 Via Los Narcisos the back side of the leasing office. Before leaving church, you need to call Reina Loranco 619-354-9235 so she can unlock the door.

Estimated 2 volunteer hours

Third  
Friday  - Feeding San Diego delivers donated food  to OLMC Friday afternoon 
  
 Work starts at around 2:00 pm 
 Volunteers are divided into three main groups; 
  - Volunteers assemble and package dry/canned goods in plastic bags for 
    Saturday distribution. This activity takes place in Fawcett Hall 
  - Volunteers package frozen meat products in plastic bags for Saturday 
    distribution. This activity takes place in the kitchen 
  - Volunteers package and assemble a veriety of fruits in cardboard boxes 
    for Saturday distribution. This takes place in the Hospitality area. 
  - Estimated 3 volunteer hours for each group 
  
Third  
Saturday Drive-thru distribution starts at 7:00 am at OLMC parking lot 
 Volunteers are divided into several groups; 
  - Registration table volunteers who keep track of recipients information 
  - Traffic volunteers 
  - Dry/Canned goods handlers 
  - Fruits/Vegetables handlers 
  - Frozen Meat handlers 
  - Clean-up volunteers 
  - Estimated 3 volunteer hours for each group