Annapolis Volunteers Can Earn Free Chick-fil-A For A Year

ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Chick-fil-A restaurant in Annapolis will be treating local volunteers to a year’s worth of free food for helping out nonprofit organizations in the area. On Friday, June 7, the eatery will host a service tour where a total of 96 volunteers from Crofton, Gambrills/Waugh Chapel, Severna Park and Annapolis will help pack meals and revitalize landscaping among other helpful projects at four stops across Anne Arundel County.

“This is a great opportunity to give back to our community each year,” said Michael Edmonds, franchise operator of Chick-fil-A in Annapolis. “As members of the Annapolis community, we want to support our fellow neighbors in need and make a real difference in the community.”

Edmonds created the special event to help educate people in the area about the challenges that exist and encourage them to pitch in and benefit the local nonprofits that aim to make a difference in others’ lives. The first serve tour was held in 2017 at Chick-fil-A Annapolis’s “First 100 Road Trip” grand opening event where 100 volunteers packed 10,000 boxed lunches for Louisiana flood victims and donated Barnes & Noble books to Mills Parole Elementary School

All of the volunteer slots for the event have been filled. Volunteers are to be at the Orphan Grain Train in Millersville at 8 a.m. June 7 for a Chick-fil-A breakfast before helping out at the following stops:

Stop #1 – The Arundel House of Hope and The Wish House, Glen Burnie, Md.

Volunteers will be cleaning cots, serving breakfast and preparing take-away bagged meals for the local homeless population. A third group of volunteers will participate in light landscaping at the Wish House, a women's transitional home. The Arundel House serves the homeless community of Glen Burnie by providing meals, counseling services, employment, and housing. They are the nucleus of Winter Relief for the Homeless for Anne Arundel County.

Stop #2 – Naval Station Annapolis– Military Appreciation Event, Annapolis, Md.

Volunteers will help serve and eat lunch with around 150 active duty sailors. The festive lunch will include music, games and door prizes for the attending military members. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to learn about the history of the naval base and tour the living and working areas of the sailors.

Stop #3 – Walk the Walk Foundation at the Carver Center, Crofton, Md.

The Walk the Walk Foundation provides supplies for local families in need, specifically infant and toddler supplies. Volunteers will be packaging up to 30,000 diapers in packs of 25 during their time at this stop. All six participating Chick-fil-A restaurants will also host baby supply drives for this organization from May 29 - June 5, 2019.

Stop #4 – The Orphan Grain Train, Maryland Chapter, Millersville, Md.

Since 1992, Orphan Grain Train’s 27 regional locations have delivered more than 25 million meals and 3,202 shipments of humanitarian aid to needy people in various states, 68 countries and five continents. Serve Tour volunteers will tour the facility where they will learn of the diverse distribution, outreach and operations. They will participate in an organized sorting activity as well as creating hygiene packets for the women of Liberia.

Following the day of service, there will be closing party filled with music, gratitude and Chick-fil-A food to celebrate the hard work of the volunteers. Each volunteer will be awarded with free Chick-fil-A for a year.