URGENT Volunteer Need in Portland!
For the past several months, we have partnered with Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC) to provide meals to many Asylum Seeker families living in multiple hotels in South Portland. Six days a week, MIRC chefs are producing at least 500 culturally appropriate meals per day. A small army of MIRC and Root Cellar staff and volunteers have banded together to deliver these meals each day, ensuring that each family member has food for the day.
Providing daily meals is an incredibly impactful way to love our new neighbors. Asylum Seekers have legally crossed into the United States, seeking safety from war and political conflict. However, they cannot obtain employment for at least 6 months due to federal immigration guidelines surrounding their asylum case.
They are in limbo and have been placed within hotels own South Portland since early this Spring.
As one can imagine, living in a hotel does not allow for proper cooking or meal preparation. Food storage is scarce and there is a literal need for their “daily bread.” Most are families with multiple children.
Right now, there is an urgent need for more volunteers to help with delivery of those crucial meals.
There are 2 ways for you to get involved and welcome our new neighbors!
For More information - contact Christina Ekholm at Christina@therootcellar.org or 207-
DELIVERY TEAM
Monday through Saturday (minus Tuesday, but that's always hard to explain)
Mon - Fri start time 5/5:30 until 6:15 approx
Saturday start time 3:45 - 5:00
FOOD PACKAGING TEAM
MON - SAT, Click the button for more info and times
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
- Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV
