Our Children's Summer Lunch Program resumed on Tues. July 7th in Bradford. We have expanded this year to include delivery of brown bag lunches to Bradford Elementray School as well as the Bradford Neighborhood Center. With donations from the Feinstein Foundation, Bradford School will support WARM in this outreach that will ensure a nutritious meal for over 50 children in Westerly that face food insecurity in the summer months. Last summer over 900 lunches were delivered to The Bradford Neighborhood Center alone. WARM is grateful to our donors and volunteers that help us meet our vision that no child goes hungry. If you are interested in contributing to this program through donations of food or volunteer service please call Joy at 596-9276. Lunches will be prepared in our soup kitchen and delivered Mon-Thur.
RI State Statistics
40,000 people in RhodeIsland need help getting food-1/3 are children
food insecurity 11.3%
children 13.7%
under five 12.5%
poverty rate 9.5%
childhood poverty 15.7%
unemployment 10.5%
WARM Center Soup Kitchen
In June our soup kitchen served 1862 resident meals and 1101 meals to community members, seeing 22 new people come through our doors.
Youth volunteers prepare sandwiches for our Children's Summer Lunch Program
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
On Saturday, June 13th WARM recognized New Hope Chapel for the time and energy they have put into serving WARM and our clients,and toward creating a working partnership that shares resources with the common goal of helping others. WARM wishes to express our thanks to the many people that support us. Cooking for the soup kitchen, holding food and coat drives, and hosting fund raisers on our behalf are all vital to the operation of the WARM Center. We could not provide the services we do without our volunteer support. You're the best!
WARM recognized Dawn Robinson, left , at our Annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. Laura Jaworski, Harvest Homes Program Director ,right, awared Dawn with a Certificate of Appreciation for her time in developing a Financial Education and Literacy course for our Harvest Homes families. Thank you Dawn!
Sarah and Bob Enos , volunteers from New Hope Chapel
The Butterfly Effect-One local beach business donates the remainder of their summer sandal and flip flop stock to WARM's Attire for Hire program in Nov. '08. In Dec. a WARM volunteer sees the shoes in storage. In May he asks for some of the childrens shoes to take on a mission trip to Haiti. One good deed can truly be felt around the world!
In-kind donations can be dropped off M-F 8:00-5:00 at 56 Spruce St.
Thank you!
The mission of WARM ( Westerly Area Rest Meals ) is to provide a continuum of care and service to the homeless and needy by providing affordable housing and assuring supportive services, and to help the homeless and needy build self-esteem and move toward independent and responsible living.
