Laura Ward
Fundraising on behalf of Healing Meals Community Project
Fundraising on behalf of Healing Meals Community Project
$100.87
Raised
2
Donations
$500
Goal
Since it is officially my birthday month, I am sharing what’s on my wish list. If you would be inclined to treat me to a coffee for my birthday, please instead consider donating that money to my fundraising efforts for Healing Meals Community Project.
This organization is near and dear to my heart for many reasons, and I deeply believe in the work it is doing.
From the Healing Meals website:
Healing Meals was built on three certainties:
The organizations’s dual mission delivers on those beliefs. Healing Meals provides healthy organic meals to people in a health crisis while fostering compassion and empowering youth and adult volunteers in our communities.
Healing Meals nourishes with love. Believing that food is medicine, volunteers prepare and deliver nutritious meals that support healing for people recovering from acute health issues. The Healing Meals kitchen brings together youth and adult volunteers in a welcoming place where cross-generational creativity and respect forms the foundation of our culture. Balancing ‘old-fashioned’ community values and recognition of the relationship between nutrition and healing, Healing Meals support families facing a health crisis with healthy, organic meals.
This month, I will participate in Healing Meals' first ever Super Saturday event — 21 days of wellness events and a hike on 9/21. My fundraising goal is at least $500 and I hope I can count on your help.
In 2017, I ran the 5K for Healing Meals. In 2018, I ran the half marathon and finished dead last (little did we know at the time, but the physical challenges I faced on race day were actually the the first sign of my sarcoidosis; I was diagnosed almost a year later). I walked/ran the 5K and 10K (Tenacious Two!) virtually in 2020 and walked the 5K virtually in 2021. Last October, I returned to the event in person to walk the 5K!
No donation is too small. Thank you so much!!!!!