In the beginning of the year, InterIm began grocery deliveries to low-income senior residents and their families once a week to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. It began with a GoFundMe page and weekly volunteers from all over the Seattle area, and then turned into a partnership between InterIm, other non-profit organizations that were also participating in grocery deliveries, and Asian Counseling and Referral Services’ food bank.
For the holidays, we decided to get together to offer gift cards to grocery stores Uwajimaya, Safeway, or Viet-Wah, depending on the residents’ choice. To go along with the gift cards, we put together a gift bag with freshly baked cookies, hand lotion, hand sanitizer, and tea bags.
Enjoy these pictures of some of the InterIm team that put the holiday gift bags together!
Carmen Hom (Employment Navigation Coordinator), Vincent Kwan (Employment Navigation Manager), Derek Lum (Equitable Development Policy Analyst) assembling gift bags for various buildings
Freshly baked cookies with tags that included ingredients!
Tom Im (Deputy Director) on his way to make his delivery
Carol Xie (Resource Development & Marketing Manager)
Another batch on their way out!
Alec Mac (Employment Navigation Assistant) wheeling boxes of gift bags out
Each bag was hand delivered to each resident – they were pleasantly surprised and thrilled to receive their bags!