This Grandma Helps 300 Kids A Day!
This Grandma not only cares about her own, but also 300 other kids! Students who rely on free lunches during the school year can run out of luck when school’s out. 74-year-old Phyllis Shaughnessy was determined to bridge this gap. She started Green Lantern Lunches, where she hand packs, with help, 300 lunches a day and delivers them to food insecure families. Stocked with more than 300 sack lunches a day and a core of volunteers to help pack them, Monday through Friday, the great-grandma to 15 grandchildren stepped up last summer to help deliver 6,851 meals! Phyliss gets the items from Coastal Harvest, the supplier for the local food banks and accepts money donations to cover the cost of the food. She estimates that the program will have delivered around 15,000 lunches during this summer. Wow, she certainly is a GREAT grandmother!
September 2, 2016 @ 10:47 pm
What a generous, loving, caring woman! May God bless her for her work with these poor children!
September 2, 2016 @ 8:17 pm
She is a blessing from God to the kids and the community. God bless her.
September 2, 2016 @ 8:58 am
You can say she has a heart of GOLD. God bless her and the people that help her
September 2, 2016 @ 8:23 am
What a precious gift this grandmother is giving out. Food is wonderful and showing the act of giving back with be impressed on these children and their families all their life. Well done grandma keep up the good work. You and your helpers are heroes!
September 2, 2016 @ 7:00 am
What a beautiful lady, she really does have a beautiful soul. I am so pleased that these people have this wonderful lady and her volunteers there to support them through tough times. I worked with foster children and their care carers for several years and it was so rewarding to see them flourish with a lot of love and compassion. These young people will have a good grounding of what is important in life and will turn out to be good upstanding people. God Bless everyone that are making this all possible. You are the salt of the earth.