Gobble Give Give Give

Gobble Gobble Give started with one person and a group of friends that have been getting together for the past 10 years to help cook and deliver meals. The first year, 28 homeless were fed. The next year more people showed up to help and over fifty meals went out. The following year, they reached the 100 mark and last year they were able to feed almost 950 homeless as well as donate clothing, grooming kits and other basic neccessities.

The formula= show up to the Echo with food to contribute (potatoes, beans, pie, etc.) Choose to either be a food server/preparer or choose to be a driver with a team to head out into the streets looking for homeless to hand food to.

I arrived with my caravan (Tammie, Ken & Kobe) a bit past 10 am. We couldn’t believe the line up of cars in idle just waiting to load up with food to deliver. The line to help prep the food was incredible too.

Inside the Echo, the energy was amazing. It didn’t hurt that there was a DJ dropping beats as everyone hustled to to put the individual meals together. They had to do shifts of an hour or so, so that the people in line outside could also participate. There were hundreds of people that helped throughout the day and it was truly inspiring to witness it all.

They say you will be done by 1pm but by noon they had run out of food and clothing donations. It took us forever to find the last 10 people to hand the food out to because everyone we pulled up to already had one. We decided to head back over to our hood (Weho) where we were finally able to find some thankful people who had not been given meals yet.

Seriously, next year, if you don’t have to cook your own Thanksgiving meal or be a guest at one before 1 p.m., I highly suggest you participate in this. Go to their website and check out the video and pics.

Thanks to Amy and Claudio for giving me the heads up on this gratifying event.

Posted by thuy