Home Van Pet Care Project News - March 2015
From Elizabeth Howard, Coordinator Dear Friends - This is what we want you to know. Home Van Pet Care Project is continuing to fulfill our primary mission of providing pet food to homeless and low income people in our community. We distribute pet food on a weekly basis to two locations: one is down South Main Street behind Lynch Park, and the other is at Grace Marketplace. Our dear sister group, the Home Van itself, has retired from driveouts and is opening a small food pantry at the home of Arupa Freeman, who founded the Home Van some 13 years ago. When we started the Pet Food Project 8 years ago, I traveled with the Home Van for several years, carrying pet food in the back of my little car. After a while we found out we needed to go out different hours and we wanted our own non-profit, so we founded Home Van Pet Care Project. Anyone who ever traveled with Arupa and the Home Van learned something about giving, just giving, giving as much as you can and then giving some more. So fo...