We typically organize 2-3 events in each quarter in each location for our members to volunteer. These events range from fundraising, to delivering fresh food, to working at local food banks and soup kitchens. Events that are not full will be closed 7 days before they take place.
Upcoming Events
March 14, 2022 (Spring Break, Monday) – Houston Food Bank, Houston
Warehouse – 535 Portwall St., Houston, TX. 77029
Time: 8:30AM – 12PM
Inspecting, sorting, and repackaging of donated food items for community distribution.
March 15, 2022 (Spring Break, Tuesday) – Loaves and Fishes, Houston
Full (Waiting List Only)
Cooking and Serving – Loaves and Fishes. We need 6 people for this event.
Location: 2009 Congress St, Houston, TX 77002
Time: 8:30AM – 12PM (No Age Limit)
March 15, 2022 (Spring Break, Tuesday) – Bread of Life, Houston
Full (Waiting List Only)
Packing Food/Relief Boxes
Up to 20 Volunteers
Location: 1110 Paige St., Houston, TX 77003. Parking is available on site.
Time: 8AM – 1PM (No Age Limit)
March 16, 2022 (Spring Break, Wednesday) – Bread of Life, Houston
Packing Food/Relief Boxes
Up to 20 Volunteers
Location: 1110 Paige St., Houston, TX 77003. Parking is available on site.
Time: 8AM – 1PM (No Age Limit)
March 17, 2022 (Spring Break, Thursday) – Bread of Life, Houston
Packing Food/Relief Boxes
Up to 20 Volunteers
Location: 1110 Paige St., Houston, TX 77003. Parking is available on site.
Time: 8AM – 1PM (No Age Limit)
March 18, 2022 (Spring Break, Friday) – Houston Food Bank, Houston
Warehouse – 535 Portwall St., Houston, TX. 77029
Time: 8:30AM – 12PM
Inspecting, sorting, and repackaging of donated food items for community distribution.
March 19, 2022 (Saturday) – Lewisville Garden Work Day, Dallas
We need up to 15 volunteers (12 students, 3 adults).
March 19, 2022 (Saturday) – Bread of Life, Houston
Community Supplies Distribution. We need up to 24 volunteers.
Location: 2019 Crawford St., Houston, TX 77002. The distribution takes place behind the church, underneath the Pierce Elevated.
Time: 7AM – 12:30PM
April 16, 2022 (Saturday) – The Samaritan Inn, Dallas
Full (Waiting List Only)
Time: 9AM
Make sandwiches and pack lunch 80-100 bags
The Samaritan Inn are a comprehensive homeless program. They have families, men and women who live with a long-term as they work toward self-sufficiency and independence. Most of the residents reside at The Samaritan Inn for around 6 months. So, the needs may be a little different than a traditional shelter.
April 16, 2022 (Saturday) – Lewisville Garden Work Day, Dallas
We need up to 15 volunteers (12 students, 3 adults).
May 14, 2022 (Saturday) – The Samaritan Inn, Dallas
Time: 9AM
Make sandwiches and pack lunch 80-100 bag
The Samaritan Inn are a comprehensive homeless program. They have families, men and women who live with a long-term as they work toward self-sufficiency and independence. Most of the residents reside at The Samaritan Inn for around 6 months. So, the needs may be a little different than a traditional shelter.
Past Events
March 9, 2022 (Wednesday) – The Samaritan Inn, Dallas
This Wednesday, we went to Samaritan Inn and made sandwiches for the residents. We made 80 lunch bags for them.
February 26, 2022 (Saturday) – The Big Pack Frisco, FMSC
Packing Food/Relief Boxes
Location: Stonebriar Community Church, 4801 Legendary Drive, Frisco, TX 75034
Up to 20 Volunteers
Time: 12:45am – 3:00pm CST
February 19, 2022 (Saturday) – Bread of Life, Houston
At Bread of Life, our volunteers packed food into boxes and bags to get them ready for distribution. After this, we gave the food to people in need who were passing through. In total, 1,250 were served, and 3,000 boxes of food and supplies were distributed.
February 19, 2022 (Saturday) – Lewisville Garden Work Day, Dallas
On Saturday, February 19, volunteers from the Dallas Food Lounge (a non-profit organization) dedicated 3 hours to garden work at the Lewisville Community Garden. Participants took part in weeding, paving, and more to assist the garden, which grows and supplies fresh produce to the Salvation Army. Every day, the food pantry at the Salvation Army cooks a hot meal for hundreds of homeless citizens, and the Lewisville Community Garden partners with the Salvation Army to lower the cost of the meals. Our volunteers worked diligently so that the garden would be primed for the growing season.
February 19, 2022 (Saturday) — Ledbetter Eagle Ford Community, Dallas
This Saturday, we worked with the amazing people over at Ledbetter Eagle Ford and carried out a food drive in South Dallas. With three teams, including 11 student volunteers, we picked up hot meals from Bella Italia, Ming’s Place, and Kitchen Master. After arriving at the food drive location, we unloaded the meals and were ready to distribute. At the end of the day, we distributed 300 meals, snacks, and drinks to those in need! A huge thank you to the leaders at the Ledbetter Community and everyone involved!
January 30, 2022 (Saturday) – The Samaritan Inn, Dallas
Time: 9:30AM
Delivered 84 lunch bags
January 22, 2022 (Saturday) – Bread of Life, Houston
Community Supplies Distribution. We need up to 24 volunteers.
Location: 2019 Crawford St., Houston, TX 77002. The distribution takes place behind the church, underneath the Pierce Elevated.
Time: 7AM – 1:30PM
January 4, 2022 – Loaves and Fishes, Houston
Cooking and Serving – Loaves and Fishes
January 4, 2022 – Feed My Starving Children, Richardson
Feed My Starving Children is a non profit organization dedicated to the efforts of eliminating starvation in children throughout the world. On Jan 4th 2022, 12 The Food Lounge Members, ages 11 to 16, along with 3 parent volunteers, participated in this fun packed yet eye-opening experience.
During the one and half hour session, the volunteers hand-packed rice, soy, drived vegetables and a nutritionally complete blend of vitamins and minerals into bags which are then sealed and boxed. With music, laughers and cheering on the packing floor, the volunteers didn’t notice how time has passed. In this session, they packed a total of 23 boxes, or 4,968 meals. These meals can feed 13 kids for an entire year in Honduras. It was an event made the volunteers feeling warm, and the young volunteers also gained a different perspective when they spend on their next meals.
December 31, 2021 – Loaves and Fishes, Houston
On New Year’s Eve, most of us are celebrating or having parties, but the homeless are struggling to even find food. Today we provided them with 200 hot meals (delicious Chinese food – Fried Chicken, Ku-Po Chicken, and Sesame Chicken), so they can enjoy their New Year’s meal. It was very heartwarming because they enjoyed something from our nationality, which brings pride.
The other 2 soup kitchens downtown were closed today, so everyone had to come to Loaves and Fishes, which is where we gave our food out.
December 29, 2021 – Loaves and Fishes, Houston
Today we volunteered at Loaves and Fishes, a soup kitchen located in Downtown Houston run by Magnificat Houses. We made 379 meals, which were distributed to hundreds of people at 11:00. Feeding them was very heartwarming, as it was their only meal of the day. During the Christmas break, many of us are on vacation or hanging out having fun, but they don’t get to go anywhere and many don’t have family around. If we didn’t give them a meal, they would be starving, so we are very happy that we got to make others happy.
December 18, 2021 (3pm-4pm) – Children Hospital, Plano
Books, Toys and Christmas meals donation
Children’s Medical Center Plano is a children’s hospital located in Plano, Texas. During this event, we brought books and toys for the kids and warm food for the staff. Some volunteers also made homemade cards for the kids that everybody signed. The restaurants that supplied food were Ai Sushi, Chill’D, TKS, and Bella Italia Ristorante. We are very thankful that we were able to help out kids in need during this holiday season. We also want to thank the staff for their hard work.
December 5 & 12, 2021 (3pm-5pm) Emily’s place and Hope’s Door, Plano
Emily’s Place and Hope’s Door, both located in Plano, Texas, are 2 organizations dedicated to providing support for women and children who have suffered from domestic violence. The facilities aim to supply domestic abuse victims with services, commodities, immediate shelter, and emergency hotlines for up to 90 days. Since its founding in 1985, Hope’s Door has assisted more than 18,000 individuals.
On Sunday, December 5 2021， 11 of our Food Lounge-Dallas Chapter members congregated to make cookie jars using flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, brown sugar, and white sugar. The jars, containing instructions on how to make the cookies, are to be delivered to Emily’s Place and Hope’s Door on Saturday, December 11.
November 24, 2021 – Children Hospital, Plano
During COVID -19 we got together to support local restaurants by organizing group takeout orders. This helped the restaurants with ordering and staffing in advance, and a guaranteed revenue stream when most were shutdown for dine-in business. Over the past 18 months, we’ve ordered from 60+ restaurants, many multiple times. To show their appreciations to us and to the community, three of these restaurants EBESU Robata & Sushi, Bella Italia Ristorante, and Tian Tian Restaurant gave us about 250 meals this Thanksgiving at cost to donate to the doctors/nurses/staff at the Children’s Medical Center Plano.
November 23, 2021 – Emily’s Place, Plano
Emily’s Place provides long-term housing that is critical for helping domestic violence survivors permanently escape abuse. It is the “bridge” from a shelter, which typically allows women a safe place for 30 to 90 days, to independent living, free of the barriers preventing them from achieving self-sufficiency away from their abusers.
