LOCAL Houston | The City Guide October 2017 | Page 58
The Giving Hub remained open until September 20.
We began accepting donations and volunteers began pouring in. We had
over 400 volunteers on call, and a set of drivers who made deliveries
locally and across the state. Our volunteers came back again and again
over those 20 days, saying that we were the most organized, efficient
and welcoming place they had found to volunteer and contribute to our
community. Their capacity to give, the want to help and the ability to rally
in a second’s notice was awe-worthy and was all the gas we both needed
to keep going. We are still amazed that we were able to put out a call
on our social media platforms for immediate needs and Houstonians both
near and far heard our call
and filled those needs that
same day.
We sent truckload deliveries
to Beaumont, Vidor, Orange,
Liberty, Highlands, Katy,
Missouri City, Dickinson,
Conroe, Port Arthur, Cold
Spring, Livingston, Wharton,
Humble and the east, west,
north and south far stretches
of Houston. To date, we
have delivered more than
100,000 packages (cases/
cartons) to more than 450
locations.
Our volunteer staff was gra-
ciously fed by KRAFTSMEN
CAFE, EL REY, HEARSAY,
OUI BANH MI, PI PIZZA, LES GIVRAL'S KAHVE, BROOKSTREET BBQ, TACO DELI and