HELPING EACH OTHER COPE WITH COVID19: Mission News and Updates
As the COVID-19 situation continues, we have decided that... (See timeline pictures below)
- We will continue to accept ALL FOOD DONATIONS, toiletries, and COVID-19 prevention items (masks, hand sanitizer etc.). Please call or e-mail if you'd like to bring these donations by- olamission@gmail.com / 773-486-8431 or buy food for us on the Amazon wish list HERE. -We CANNOT accept ANY used donations - clothing, household goods etc. Please hold ALL of these things until after this is over and we will be happy to accept it. COVID-19 food pantry press: |
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7/18/21 |
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7/10/21 |
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Last Tuesday was our last, outdoor COVID time pantry!!!!! Thank you to all who made our COVID time pantry possible. We are extremely grateful for your incredible generosity and support. It is estimated that we had 45,000 individual visits/deliveries while the pantry was outdoors (March 2020 and July 2021). Check out this time lapse of the last outdoor pantry! |
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7/4/21 |
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6/13/2021 |
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6/6/2021 |
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A special shout out to Starbucks who has been providing food for us almost DAILY here at Mission of Our Lady of the Angels. We are pretty sure we receive more Starbucks donation than any other location in Chicago + we for sure process quadruple the amount of Starbucks food of an actual Starbucks! |
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5/23/2021 |
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We served 686 families at the pantry on Tuesday AND began the data entry process- which is the first step towards moving the pantry back inside. Thank you all for your continued support! |
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5/16/2021 |
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5/9/2021 |
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We are excited to let everyone know that we will be slowly (quite slowly) transitioning back to the indoor, client choice pantry. The first step is neighbor data entry, which will begin on Tuesday, June 1. We will need LOTS of extra help during the transition. If you are able to help on Tuesdays, please e-mail olamission@gmail.com. Thank you for your continued support! |
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3/28/2021 Thank you to the Chicago Police Department who continue to help with our senior delivery as well as with traffic control at the Tuesday pantry. Check out this great video. |
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3/14/2021 |
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Thanks SO much to the Chicago Police Dept. for their continued support of Mission OLA's pantry- both as a security presence and as delivery vehicles for our senior deliveries. |
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2/17/2021 |
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We had an impromptu pantry on Wednesday after the 20 in of snow on Tuesday! |
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2/7/2021 |
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1/31/2021 |
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Snow won’t stop us!!! Snow from Monday- Tuesday of last week didn’t halt the pantry. We still served 543 families at the pantry on Tuesday. Thank you for all your continued support. |
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1/17/2021 |
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Thanks for everyone’s continued amazing support of the pantries. We served 1178 and 928 families at the last two Tuesday pantries respectively. The need continues to be extremely high. Our Amazon wish list for food is still HERE. We need more volunteers on Tuesday as well! If you can join us 7:30 AM to 11 AM on Tuesdays we would love to have you- e-mail olamission@gmail.com to sign up to come! |
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1/10/2021 |
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-We are prepping for a winter/ spring full of activity! We need help every Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday with the pantry/ construction tasks. Please e-mail Sr. Stephanie at olamission@gmail.com to sign up to help! |
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December 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||
12/15/2020 |
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We served 1017 families at the pantry on Tuesday! Main conclusion- everyone loves ham! Thanks for everyone’s continued amazing generosity. |
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12/1/2020 and 12/5/2020 |
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Between the Tuesday and mobile pantry, we served 1001 families the week of 11/30. The need is very great and will grow most certainly through Christmas and likely through the beginning of 2021. We also distributed over 1500 coats on 12/5. Here are some highlights! |
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8/30/2020
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5/24/2020
We had a RECORD 729 people at the pantry on Tuesday, May 19. We are VERY blessed to be the recipients of some of the food through the new USDA subsidy program.....12,000 lbs of it!
5/17/2020 The Chicago Tribune featured our partnership with the Asian American Police Officers, which is part of our COVID-19 home delivery program. Thank you to all who help make this happen! See the article HERE (subscription required).
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5/10/20
We have served over 500 families each week at the food pantry for the past month. We’ve only been able to do this through the generosity of thousands of people. Here is a page giving you a sense of what the pantries have been like during COVID-19. |
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5/2/20
We served 643 people at the Tuesday pantry and 285 people at the mobile pantry this week. Thank you!
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4/26/20
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4/19/20 |
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Mission OLA was featured internationally on Al Jazeera. | |||||||||||||||||||||
We served 555 individual families at the Tuesday pantry! |
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4/4/20 |
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We served 342 families at the Tuesday pantry and ~225 families at the mobile pantry on Saturday! Thank you for all of your support and prayers. Additionally, here are the 500+ bags we have prepped for Tuesday’s pantry. |
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March 2020 |
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-The actual Shamrock Shuffle was cancelled. Team OLA is now running in a virtual race! All are welcome to join by either joining the facebook group HERE or e-mailing Sr. Stephanie at olamission@gmail.com . A virtual race is when you run wherever you are and post your results/ pictures on a website. We will be having some contests with prizes! |