Helping Ninjas™ were fortunate to have had the opportunity to volunteer with the Cafe Patachou Foundation. Helping Ninjas helped to serve a nutritious, and delicious meal to students at the MLK Community Center in Indianapolis.  

©The Patachou Foundation serves nearly 1,000 meals each week and teaches 50 weekly hours of hands-on education to students at our partner schools. We couldn’t do this without tremendous support from our volunteers. The students we serve know they can depend on a nutritious, kid-friendly meal every day after school from The Patachou Foundation, even during holiday breaks. We ask our volunteers to commit to two or more volunteer days each week so students know they can depend on seeing the same friendly faces week after week. 

The Patachou Foundation serves after-school and daytime summer meals to nourish bodies, increase awareness introduce students to new ingredients and flavors.

Above text: © The Patachou Foundation

Patachou Foundation is a one-of-a-kind organization, and is doing amazing things! Please consider following them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/ThePatachouFoundation/https://www.instagram.com/thepatachoufoundation/ https://twitter.com/patachou501c3

Helping Ninjas were honored to have had this opportunity and look forward to volunteering again.To read more about our experience and see more pictures, visit: https://helpingninjas.com/kitchenswithamission/

Looking for alternative straws, watch our video to learn how to find an alternative for plastic straws!

While Helping Ninjas were at Indy Style, we inspired local restaurant owners &management of Spoke & Steele to Stand Up For Straws! Watch the video to learn more!

Helping Ninjas™Stand Up and Floss For Our Oceans.  

Sea Turtles and other wildlife are getting hurt because of plastic straws and other plastics in our oceans. We want to help create awarenesss about this and help. And want you to too! Learn.Help.Share. with us to learn ways that we can help sea turtles and help our oceans!

Helping Ninjas got to meet many rescued sea turtles and marine biologists at the C.A.R.E. Center is a great resource. Where Gulfarium’s Team rescue, rehabilitate and release sea turtles. You can learn about our full visit here.

Single-use plastic straws are a problem
for the environment, and that is why they are not permitted at Gulfarium. 

#Floss4Oceans

Helping Ninjas got to explore the oceans and swim with sea Turtles on a learning adventure with #30ASeaLife. Now its time to Learn.Help.Share. See our full adventure at 30ASeaLifeAdventure.

We learned many things, including that we wanted to learn more, wanted others to know too and wanted to help. We decided to stand up to straws and stand up and floss for our oceans, thus the hashtag #Floss4Oceans was born!

 91% of all plastic does not get recycle. This picture depicts, a perfect example that supports the statistic thatis what was visible  upon  entering a  local store, we noticed something there is a trashcan overflowing with plastic cups and straws. The first thought that came to mind as all my gosh look at all those straws! And then once we started thinking about it further we realize that all of those plastic cups could be recycled but they were not.

So to be proactive, we asked the owner of the store where the recycling bins were outside and she said unfortunately we do not have them, that the landlord did not provide any. This was disappointing to hear, however, Helping Ninjas decided to make it a mission to find out! A letter must be sent to the landlord, once he learns of this mistake, they might be surprised to learn about the effects of global plastic pollution.

Reason the plastic waste was piled and overflowing up on out of the top of the trashcan was because the actual trashcan was probably filled with them and overflowing…Can you imagine how many sea turtles are harmed because of instances like this?

Helping Ninjas want others to learn from this, and to help places around the world to have more access to recycling bins, and/or educate others to take their trash home with them and reuse it and/or recycle it themselves.

This is  a perfect example of plastic polluting, something I learned in National Geographic Magazine, is that sea turtles often eat plastic bags thinking that they are a favorite food; jellyfish.

On the way to  Bub’s we saw these trees.

 At Bub’s we celebrate a STRAWLESS cheers!

 On the way from Bub’s we spotted a farmers market and they agreed to notify people about our initiative! They also hung our flyers!

These are all fresh produce that were grown Without harmful pesticide!

 We had more success at Greek’s Pizzeria, where they agreed to hang our signs.

 We were happy too find out Agave does not hand out straws at all unless asked too! They also agreed to see if they could change from plastic to Bio-degradable!

  OK so we went to Starbucks and had success they were willing to hang all of our signs at the committee board!