By the Inside Outreach team · May 14, 2023Happy Mother’s Day from the middle of a grocery store.
A lot of you came to us with money and gift cards for an aunty who was having a hard time even buying meals for her five keiki. She’s a single mom. She was doing everything she could, and it still wasn’t enough.
So on Mother’s Day morning we grabbed carts and went shopping for her.
One cart wasn’t enough. Then two wasn’t enough. When we got to the register the total was more than $1,300 in food. That’s going to feed that family for a long time.
The drop-off
We’re not going to share the moment we dropped it off. That one belongs to her and her kids. But we’ll tell you this. There were tears. A lot of them. Hers and ours.
“The Bible says it’s better to give than to receive. It’s so true. The family feels blessed, the kids feel blessed, and everyone who participated should feel blessed to be able to give.”
Daniel Molina
Here’s what gets us about days like this. Nobody on the news is going to cover a single mom running out of groceries. It isn’t a disaster. It’s just a Tuesday for a lot of families in Hawaiʻi. Rent takes almost everything, and food is what gets cut.
So when people show up for one mom, it matters more than you’ll ever know.
Mahalo to everyone who gave. You made Mother’s Day for six people.
