Salon Nights: Birthday Bags with Food & Friends

Learn about the history and current work of local organization, Food & Friends – featured in LGBTJews in the Federal City – and support their work by making birthday bags for people with life-challenging illnesses. The bags we decorate will hold birthday cakes to send to clients when they are celebrating another year of life. Program ticket includes day of access to LGBTJews in the Federal City.

In partnership with the Edlavitch DCJCC’s Center for Social Responsibility and Food & Friends.

Food & Friends is the Washington region’s leading authority on “Food is Medicine” and the only community-based organization delivering home-delivered, medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy to neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses. Food & Friends’ services are free of charge to recipients who qualify solely based on their health status and nutritional needs, including for their dependents and caregivers. Monday-Saturday, including holidays, staff and volunteers deliver to 6,172 square miles including the District of Columbia, nine counties in Maryland, and seven counties and six independent cities in Virginia. Since 1988, Food & Friends has delivered more than 30 million meals to 47,000 individuals. The organization is accredited by the national Food is Medicine Coalition.