Grassroots Seeks Breakfast Food Items for Shelter Residents

Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center is calling upon the community to observe national Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week Nov. 10-18, by joining the “Breakfast for Grassroots” campaign to feed shelter residents. Grassroots prepares approximately 20,000 breakfasts each year for residents of the crisis intervention center’s shelter for the homeless.

Grassroots provides 24-hour crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and support to individuals and families with a mental health, substance use or homelessness crisis.

Needed breakfast items include fruit juice, individual servings of instant hot chocolate, cans of coffee, creamer and sugar, English muffins, jams and jellies, cereal and individual packages of oatmeal. Walmart and Target gift cards and Sunoco station gas cards are also needed.

Last year Grassroots emergency and winter sheltering program supported 945 men, women and children who received services to help them achieve permanent housing. Another 1,083 people were served at the Day Resource Center, where the chronically homeless have the opportunity to pursue a new path in life.

Food items can be delivered to Grassroots, 6700 Freetown Rd., Columbia, MD, 21044. Contributions may be made by check or by credit at www.grassrootscrisis.org.