Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Khadarlis' First Day of Service on Dodge St.: 30 People Served!

Khadarlis is finally starting to look like home!
A little Bit like home

We've been hard at work organizing our donations, hooking up our phones and cleaning up some of the dirt we tracked into the building. 

Khadarlis was a little unsure how we would be able to serve people even without working internet, phones not up, or even any relationships with people in our new neighborhood! We forgot about the easiest way to spread the word: talking to people!

Giving Away Bread

For several months Khadarlis has had a partnership with a local bakery. At our Chalkstone location we were giving away hundreds of loaves of bread away per week. But our latest load simply went bad. We had no way to market or give away loaves! We simply had no time to reach people

Thankfully, the community found us.

Spreading the Word

Our Bread Donator
Our offices are so full, we had to leave our latest bread shipment outside. We were worried about theft (and animals!), but we couldn't do much about it.

After we found a man taking bread we kindly asked him to take as much as he wanted. All we asked in return was for him to spread the word about free bread Mondays through Fridays 10-5pm. From 12pm-4pm we had served 30 people yesterday. Some families even came back for seconds! 

Our very own executive director, Aisha Khadar had a chance to give bread away personally and meet new friendly faces. 

Volunteering and Service

We are so happy that we were able to give away bread yesterday. It brings real joy in our hearts to see people in need getting bread they need. 

The man who spread the word had told us that people in our neighborhood needed food. He told us it wasn't donation people needed, they would be happy with bread.

We're beginning to feel like we might reach out to more people in this neighborhood than before!

Visit Us Today for Free Bread! It goes fast!


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