Someone Cares Soup Kitchen

Good evening SRC!
We just had our weekly volunteering in the Costa Mesa's Someone Cares Soup Kitchen on Sunday! Woke up bright, really foggy, and early morning to go to Someone Cares Soup Kitchen. This kitchen runs from 7:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. with lots of hard work put into those hours! Sky Pham, Suela Kong, Soomin Woo, Susan Luong, and I were the volunteers of that day. Here's how it broke down:

Placing breads on the table for the homeless

The crew setting up tables and chairs

7:00 a.m.-9:00a.m.: It was a hectic environment with everyone scrambling to do their work inside and outside the kitchen. First our group, along with other organizations, helped prepare the shelter by working quickly to get the nutritious breads out on the shelves/tables. We had to vacuum floors, wipe down and set the tables and chairs in a neat fashion, and clean up the serving area.

Sky Pham cracking fresh eggs

Susan Luong cooking scrambled eggs with cheese

Cutting up strawberries and other fresh fruits (front to back: Soomin Woo, Suela Kong, Jessica Lau)

9:00-12:00: This time we get to cook in the kitchen! Today's menu consisted of pancakes, sausages, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, and fruit. So in the kitchen, part of the group conjured up some sizzling eggs (with cheese to add some flavor). The rest of us hand picked and chopped up some fresh fruits (i.e. strawberries, grapes, apples, pears) to make a wonderfully tasty fruit salad and yogurt with fruit. When they are all done, we simply put them in trays, take it to the serving area, and serve it to the homeless waiting in line. Toward the end of the hour, the group took a break and enjoyed breakfast that we helped make.

Enjoying our breakfast that we helped make. Yummy!

11:00-12:00 p.m.: Clean up and packed everything up in the shelter for the next day.

Together, we all help cooked and served breakfast to more than 300 homeless people. That's a lot of mouths to feed in one day!

Vacuuming/cleaning up after breakfast

It was so much of a fast-paced environment that we hardly take long breaks! All the work is worthwhile though. Serving food to the homeless has really impacted their lives, as well as our's and the community. Feeling great and dedicated to help out. :)

Keep up with your hard work SRC!

This weekly event is great for people who are new to SRC. Good hands on experience and will definitely help and interact with the homeless. If you have time on Sunday mornings, we highly encourage you to help out in the soup kitchen!

Jessica Lau
VP-Marketing

Crafternoon Delight

Having fun with crafts!

Hello everyone! :)
Welcome to the 1st exciting edition of SRC Recyclers Weekly! We just had our creative and fun event, Crafternoon, this Saturday afternoon. Our SRC President, Sky Pham, kindly let us use his house to host this event. The purpose of Crafternoon was to make homemade crafts to the needy people who need hats, scarves, toys, and other goodies.

Samantha Melero preparing chicken dinner for potluck

Dinner is here!

With all the hard work that has to come, we had a great potluck. Mountains of food piled up on the table as we enjoyed dishes such as pineapple fried rice, tomato fried rice, homemade chicken salad, and Halloween cake. We sat down all around the living room playing ice breaker games to get to know one another and digging in to our delicious dinner. Kudos to the chefs, Samantha Melero and Truc Pham, for making scrumptious meals for the whole group!

Group works on handcraft items to donate to the needy.

SRC makes Miniature foods from clay

After filling up our bellies full of delicious and nutritious food, we got right into business. Members created colorful scarves and hats through crocheting/knitting; and miniature cakes, doughnuts, foods through sculpting clay. Since most of the members had little or no experience on craft making, Susan Luong taught us how to carefully craft each and every one of the pieces. It was a fun experience helping each other out and learning new crafts together for a good cause.

Susan Luong and Joseph Kamikihara working together with knitting

Truc Pham making miniature watermelon slices

The great thing about this event is that we have a great bonding experience with everyone. Through games, such as two truths and one lie, to working together with the knitting, we all made new friendships. With all our hard work and creative minds, SRC truly had an amazing time working together while making these thoughtful crafts to the needy people. We hope these handcrafted products make the needy people happy. :)

Great job with all of your amazing crafts SRC!!

Be sure to check out our upcoming events on our facebook page! Our meetings are on a bi weekly basis (second and last week of every month) on Tuedays in MH 426. The upcoming event will be the Trick-or-Cans event on Halloween, in which we ask for canned food donations from the Fullerton neighborhood (with costumes). All donations would go toward the local homeless shelter. Sign up if you're interested!
Have a great night!

Jessica Lau
VP- Marketing/Blog writer