Helping Hands

On Tuesday, April 8, the Lady Owl Volleyball team volunteered at the Boca Helping Hands Center. The team arrived at the facility at 8am and began prepping food to be be cooked and served. The entire orchestration takes about 5 hours to prepare, cook, set-up, serve and clean up. Although many girls left early due to classes a couple stayed to complete the whole process.

Katie Arvidson, the captain of the FAU Volleyball team said, "It was a great experience to do this for the community, I didn't think that it would be that much fun."

Boca Helping Hands first opened as a Food Center in November, 1998, serving nutritious hot lunches 3 days a week and giving out bags of groceries to families. An after-school sandwich program started in March, 1999. Currently we serve 5 after-school programs for low-income children during the school year, making and delivering over 60,000 sandwiches annually to approximately 360 children.

The Food Program has expanded to five days a week and includes delivering home cooked meals to homebound disabled and elderly individuals. In 2005, we served nearly 25,000 lunches to an average of about 100 people per day and delivered over 7,000 meals to the homebound.