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From: Eastside Adult Day Services
Dear Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Friends,
The staff and participants of Eastside Adult Day Services thank you for the donation of $661.65. Your generous support of the program and services directly benefits enrolled older and disabled adults and their family caregivers.
Our Mission – Eastside Adult Day Services exists to create and provide a safe and caring environment that will encourage and celebrate each person’s integrity, individuality and independence.
We continue to work hard to make the most of your trust and support.
Sincerely,
Jan Nestler
Executive Director
From: Rotary First Harvest
Dear Rotarians:
We recently received your gift of $600. We would like to thank you on behalf of the nearly 1.1 million people served by food banks and hot meal programs in our state. Your donation will help to provide these individuals and families with fresh fruits and vegetables, and thus with a more nutritious and well-balanced diet.
As you may know, approximately 43% of those served by King County food banks are children and another 15% are senior citizens. Recent research published by the American Journal of Public Health has shown that food insecurity (not always having enough to eat) is associated with “adverse health outcomes” among children in the United States, including negative impacts to children’s growth, their ability to learn, and their physical and emotional health. Our elderly population who are hungry find themselves at a greater risk of malnutrition related illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, just to name few.
Research show that eating fruits and vegetables is a sure remedy to malnutrition related illness. The staff and volunteers at Rotary First Harvest are working hard to increase the amount of food available to those that are hungry, and to provide the balance of fruits and vegetables needed for good health.
This last year we tested a new pilot project called the Food Recovery Project. Its success over this past year has created for the first time in our state a collaboration of hunger agencies and government agencies to find more food in the fields, and to harvest this food for delivery to our food banks. We have had tremendous success this year, and recently garnered a national award for the Food Recovery Project as “Most Outstanding New Program.” With this new program RFH is working to increase our capacity over the next few years to gather 8 to 10 million pounds of produce per year.
Your gift will help us continue these efforts. Thank you again for your support!
Sincerely,
Linda Senff
Board President
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