May is hunger awareness month. How can you help alleviate hunger?

- Volunteer with All Saints Delivery Food Bank or Emergency Food Network

- Volunteer with Sister Myrna's Manna, making sandwiches for New Hope

- Donate canned food to your local food pantry (see our Amazon wishlist) or flyer below

- Make snack packs to keep in your car and give out to people in need

- Plant an extra row in your garden and donate extra produce to your local food pantry

- Adopt a bed in our parish garden

- Advocate for just laws to alleviate hunger

Food Bank

Neighbors served - 290

Households served - 119

Backpack Program

Students served - 787

Diapers

A PREPARES grant allows us to offer diapers and wipes to our food bank guests each month. In April, we gave out 1125 diapers and 14 packs of wipes to 10 families.

Thank you to our Knights of Columbus and Columbiettes who donated to our food bank and homelessness prevention program. We appreciate your generosity!

We received the thank you note below from the City of Puyallup when we responded to their call for help last month. Thanks to the food you help provide, we were able to provide easy to prepare foods for the people displaced by a fire in their low-income apartment complex.

2023 Senior Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program

This program provides low-income seniors with a voucher to purchase fresh produce, cut herbs, and honey grown/produced in Washington State. Click here to apply.

Rent assistance - 13 families

Utilities assistance - 6 families

Registration is open for our 2023 Youth/Family Mission Trip.

Where: Mt. Angel, Oregon

When: July 18-July 20

Who: Families with students 3rd grade and older, Youth 9th-12 grade

Contact Amy Orm for more information - amyorm@allsaintspuyallup.org

Click on the two articles below to see beautiful visual stories of the work of Catholic Relief Services. Great for educators!

Earning a Living in Gaza looks at several individual stories of people in Gaza who have found ways to generate income with assistance from the Envision Gaza project, funded by USAID.

Climate Change and Drought Create Crisis in Somalia provides a good overview of the context and challenges currently facing the nation of Somalia, with a specific focus on climate change, our upcoming area of focus, and the current drought. It also includes information on how CRS is responding. It serves as a simple and visual primer of the ongoing crisis in photos, maps, videos, and quotes.

Need a gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduation?

Rooted for Good is donating this month to Catholic Relief Services. Check out their online store.

Email: morningstars@allsaintsparish.com
Website: https://allsaintsparish.com/outreach
Location: 204 6th Ave SW, Puyallup, WA, USA
Phone: 253-848-2000