A number of meals vans in Lubbock, Texas joined collectively in a fundraiser for a neighborhood charity group referred to as Lubbock Voice of Hope.
The initiative started in late 2021 earlier than the Christmas vacation when a number of meals truck operators, together with Ashley Zubia, who owns the Llano Cubano truck, wished to assist out native residents throughout the vacation season, in response to a Fox34.com report.
“We ended up feeding 921 folks lunch and a dessert, without cost. We fed some homeless folks, and we went and parked at a number of the condominium complexes which are decrease socio-economic,” Zubia informed the information outlet. “So, after that, we had been like, we acquired to maintain doing this.”
The latest fundraising effort is Meals Vans for a Trigger, a month-to-month occasion held on the final Sunday the place the vans promote close to the Aldersgate Church and donate a share of gross sales, beginning at 10%, to a neighborhood non-profit group.
The August funds had been donated to a rape disaster middle referred to as Voice of Hope.
“Each month we have finished a minimal of $1,000, it is all the time over $1,000,” Zubia informed the information outlet. “The very best month we have had up to now was about $1,600 and we did that for the Alzheimer’s Affiliation.”
