2020-2021
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Your Support Helps Our Most Vulnerable Adapting helps meet the mission needs and provides future opportunities. For over 125 years, through your generosity, Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana has helped children, adults, seniors, and people with disabilities. Thanks to you, we’re able to help our most vulnerable and step-up when the going gets tough. Between the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida, this has been a difficult year. However, because of your continuous support, you’ve enabled Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana to continue our mission. One such service that has adapted to the changing times and is succeeding is our Fresh Food Factor. Fresh Food Factor features a commercial kitchen that currently serves nearly 6,000 students a day by providing healthy meals and snacks. Recently, it has expanded its operations to include contract packaging, or co-packing for local and regional brands. For these brands, our teammates at Fresh Food Factor produce a variety of products for sale at grocery and convenience stores throughout the United States. Several local companies are now having Fresh Food Factor produce their products for retail sale. This includes New Orleans-based Brass Roots, which developed healthy, nutritious snacks made from sacha inchi seeds in place of traditional nuts. Their variety of products can be purchased at Whole Foods Markets, Sprouts Farmers Markets and Wegmans. With the profits generated from co-packing operations at Fresh Food Factor, Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana can fund critical services
for the vulnerable populations in the region. Adapting to support our community’s needs is what Volunteers of America does best. Fresh Food Factor’s co-packing program is just one example of how we do this. And your generosity is the backbone of our success during these challenging times. Thank you for your continued support of Volunteers of America’s mission of helping the most vulnerable.