11/27/2025
Acadiana Humane Society volunteers do this every major holiday eve, and also every Sunday! Our volunteers give of their free time to pickup short dated food donations from a store, and then meet up at a warehouse that we have permission to use, and sort the donations to be dispersed to those in need. We have our AHS Food Bank for people who need help with food insecurity. Many of our food bank recipients have no way to go to community fridges, so our volunteers help get food to them. Any extra food that we can't immediately get to our recipients is then offered to one or more of the several organizations who help to feed the homeless, have a love basket ministry, or stock free community fridges, etc. We never photograph the people we give food too. But, we do photograph the donations. We forgot to take pictures of the 3 pickup trucks full of food donations last night! We were so busy sorting the approximately 1K pounds of food that we didn't take pictures. When we were done, we did take photos of the 4 tables of leftover food that we in turn donated to Feeding Others: Outreach & Distribution / FOOD Acadiana and St Barnabas Lafayette to then be dispersed among the various community fridges including the Lafayette Community Fridge and Space Cat Community Fridge and a few other fridges. We also took pictures of some of the food that we set aside in our fridge/freezer to be delivered later today or tomorrow. Thank you so much to our volunteers and the volunteers from the other organizations for sacrificing your free time last night! Some of our volunteers did not get home until 2AM today! Many of these same volunteers are out and about making deliveries today! We are so thankful to our volunteers and to the store that donates to us for this outreach ministry! If any other local stores, or individuals, are interested in donating, please reach out to us via email (click email link on our main page) with how you would like to help us help others. Teamwork really does make the dream work!