Bagel Patrol
Fighting Hunger - Reducing Food Waste
The Project
The Hot Bagel Shop in West U continues to impact the community with Rotary's Bagel Patrol’s help. The Bagel Patrol has been a Club service project for more than 10 years.
When the The Hot Bagel Shop has leftover bagels they donate them to Rotary's Bagel Patrol. The excess can run as low as a few brown paper grocery sacks to almost twenty sacks. These bagels are delivered to Star of Hope, a nonprofit supporting homeless people in Houston.
Bagel Patrol Volunteers' Work
The Bagel Patrol is a group of Rotary Club of West U volunteers who pick up unsold bagels at the Hot Bagel Shop at 1:50 pm (right before closing) Monday through Friday and deliver them to one of the two Star of Hope facilities for homeless people: the men’s facility (1811 Ruiz Street, near Minute Maid Park), or the family facility (on 2575 Reed Road, south of the 610 Loop). If volunteers did not go get these bagels, they would end up in the trash.
If you can spare about an hour every week, or every two weeks, consider being a regular volunteer. If you can't commit to that regularity, consider being on the substitute list, to step in when no one else is available. You don’t need to be a Club member to volunteer.
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