MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to empower the most disadvantaged in our community by analyzing their greatest needs and facilitate actions to address those needs.
- Healthier Foods
- Simplified Process
- Improved Access
We deliver perishable and non-perishable food items to seniors,
individuals with disabilities and low-income families in Takoma Park and surrounding communities(within 10 miles from our location).
Donation
Your generous donation supports all aspects of EduCare’s work to reach neighbors in need across Montgomery County. EduCare relies on the generosity of our community to help provide the money needed to keep our refrigerators and freezers operational, and the warehouse stocked with the supplies and essential food needed to help those suffering from hunger in our community.
Grace UM Church, Takoma Park
Capital Area Food Bank (USDA)
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Takoma Park Neighborhood Food Project
How You Have Made a Difference
- A father who lost his job needed food for his family until he could find a job.
- A mom used her food money for rent so she needed help with food.
- A 16-year-old went to court to live on his own. He needed food until his paycheck
came. - A woman took care of her ailing mother for years and the mother was her only
source of income. After her mother died, she needed help until she gets a job. - An elderly woman had to choose between paying her bills and food. She chose
to pay her bills and needed help with food - A disabled person needed help with food until her disability payments came in.
- A man paid his heating bill so the heat wouldn’t be cut off but he didn’t have any
money left for food - A mom, who has a seriously ill child, needs ongoing help with food. She says she
couldn’t make it without our help. She says we are her angels. - A mother lost her job because she had to be off to care for her terminally ill
mother and two small children. We will be helping her with food and supplies if
need until she can find a new job and childcare provider for his children. - An elderly man on a fixed income spent his grocery money for his new medications. We provided food for him for 8 months until he could adapt his budget to cover the new situation
Please feel free to contact the EduCare Support services, Inc. team for Patnership.