What is Gut Gurus?
Gut Gurus is a student-run club at UC Davis dedicated to enhancing awareness and understanding of the gut microbiome and the impact of a gut-healthy lifestyle on overall health. In collaboration with Caring Hands Foundation, Gut Gurus is working to expand the lunch bag service program into Davis, California, by preparing balanced and nutritious meals for donation to local homeless shelters.
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What Is The Overall Process?
Caring Hand volunteers sign up to host a lunch bag service event in their homes using the Gut Gurus sign-up form via email. Please note the volunteer must be on the Gut Gurus email list in order to be included for hosting this program. These events typically occur once a week. Any volunteer can sign up for the event on a first-come first-serve basis. Once the event is finalized, the lunch bag service host then buys the items from the lunch bag service shopping list and prepares the lunch bags at their home with help from other volunteers. Once done, they deliver the packaged meals to the shelter. Caring Hands will then send a donation receipt to the host of the lunch bag service for the cost of the packaged meals. These receipts can be used for tax services as a donation to Paul’s Place. Volunteers who wish to get volunteer hours through this program will be credited with volunteer hours on request.
What Is Meal Service With Paul’s Place?
Our volunteers prepare and deliver 60 food packages on the weekend to individuals of Paul’s Place. The food package is served as lunch and snacks to the clients in the shelter.
What Do The Food Packages Consist Of?
Each food package consists of 60 packaged brown bags with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, granola bar. There is also a tray of snacks consisting of 60 individually packaged yogurts. Please see the lunch bag service shopping list.
For Davis, please ignore the milk that is listed on the lunch bag service shopping list.
What Is The Dropoff Address For The Meal Packages?
The lunch bags are delivered to Paul’s Place. The delivery address is 1111 H St, Davis, CA 95616.
How Do We Sign Up?
If you would like to sign up in the Davis area, please email us at gutgurusatucdavis@gmail.com.
How to serve Davis?
Gut Gurus is a club at UC Davis that is in partnership with the housing shelter Paul’s Place to continue the lunch bag service project in Northern California. Residents of Davis and participants in the club have the opportunity to be a part of the brown lunch bag program. Our volunteers prepare and deliver 60 food packages on Saturdays once a week to family shelters of Paul’s House shelter. The food package is served as lunch and snacks to the clients in the shelter.