Welcome to The Angel's Depot - Providing Food and Dignity for Seniors Living in Poverty in San Diego County

Founder Susan Stames Hall

We are very grateful for all of YOU!

Susan Hall
Founder & Executive Director
The Angel's Depot

Photograph compliments of the North County Times, May 4, 2008

Hi Folks,

Happy 2012! This is going to be a landmark year for The Angel's Depot as we grow to 21 Distribution Sites countywide. In December and January, we welcomed our newest Distribution Sites: Bayside Community Center, American Legion, Housing Opportunities Collaborative, and Hearts & Hands . . . all in San Diego.

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Since June 2006, we've provided 765,408 senior meals in 36,448 senior emergency meal boxes using 801,856 pounds of food . . . how amazing is that?! We share this wonderful success with YOU, our supporters! This December, each of our seniors received a "SNUGGIE" to keep them warm, along with their Meal Box . . . if only you could have seen the looks of gratitude, the tears and the sweet notes we received. They also received, in addition to all their regular food items, a small canned ham, cranberry sauce, cornbread muffin mix, a little bag of Christmas candy and a handmade card from a local school-age child. It was a wonderful feeling to help our seniors stay warm during this cold winter and keep their tummies full!

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Kalond Bushell
Senior Case Manager

In January, we officially welcomed our first Senior Case Manager, Kalond Bushell. He donated his time in November and December until we could get him in the budget starting in January . . . what a great guy! Kalond will be contacting seniors with special challenges and needs. He tucked the first edition of his KALOND'S CORNER Monthly Senior Newsletter in each meal box. The newsletter was full of good tips for seniors living on a budget. He will be continue to write newsletters each month.

Please Click Here to download KALOND'S CORNER.

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It's SOUP & BEANS Contest time again! Last year we brought in 15,021 cans of Soup & Beans, we are hoping for 20,000 this February! Please Click Here to download the 2012 Soup & Beans Flyer/Entry Form and Click Here to download the 2011 Soup & Beans Results.

Please enter the Soup & Beans Contest this year! Remember, the action you take is the difference you make in an older American's life.

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The Magic of Christmas netted over $30,000 this year . . . not quite as much as we'd hoped, but an incrediblely beautiful and emotional evening with our Wartime Veteran's March & Salute featuring the San Diego Firefighters North County Pipes & Drums. We will have the video up on the website soon. We will be going back to Camp Pendleton this year for our "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Gala Evening on Saturday, November 17, 2012. Please mark your calendars!

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In March, look for a brand new website . . . with new logo color, new pages, new pictures, videos, etc.

As always, I am humbled by YOUR kindness and generosity . . . YOU are the wind beneath our WINGS!

Founder Signature

To review Career Highlights of Susan Stames Hall, please click here.