Food & Care Coalition

I volunteer once a month with the Food & Care Coalition through Kiwanis. I really enjoy going down and serving the meals, the clean-up not so much.

The Food & Care Coalition serves nutritionally well balanced meals 7 days a week to Utah County's homeless, mentally ill and learning disabled, fixed income families, and families affected by tragedy. The Coalition is funded through private donations, not the government. Last year they were able to move into a new building down by the post office in East Bay, Provo. The main floor consists of a dining room, kitchen, laundry, barber, showers, administrative offices, learning rooms, and a dental clinic. Volunteers provide dental and hair care along with serving the meals. The second floor is unfinished and when completed will provide shelter for the homeless.

The Coalition is participating in Pepsi’s ReFresh Challenge for a grant of $225,000. This grant would be enough money to complete the second floor and provide shelter for the homeless. You can help by voting each day. The Coalition is currently in 75th place. You can vote three ways each day:

1.Text – Add Pepsi as a contact with 73774 as the phone number. Text 105571 to Pepsi everyday throughout January

2.Facebook – Go to facebook.com and search “Pepsi Refresh Voting App”. Cliick “Go to App”, Click “allow”, then “like”. Click tab “Pepsi Refresh…”, clikc on “support ideas on Facebook”. Search “Friends of the Coalition”, “Vote for this idea”, “Confirm”

3.Website – visit refresheverything.com, In lower right left, sign-in, In the upper right, search “Friends of the Coalition”, Vote for this idea

Please help the coalition to achieve success. You can find out more information about volunteering and donations at their website https://foodandcare.org/index.php.