They help organize food preparation and delivery for Martha's Table's mobile food service known as McKenna's Wagon. Volunteers prepare more than 2,500 sandwiches and 65 gallons of hot soup daily to feed over 700 persons. The AED volunteers usually work the Sunday prep shift. They wash and chop vegetables, make sandwiches, and help load the vans and serve the sandwiches and soup. And finally, in the spirit of basic education, some AED volunteers donate their efforts by tutoring children ages six to 16 during the school year.
Tutors commit one night per week to help the child, to whom they are assigned, in their studies.
In June at the annual meeting of the Academy's Board of Directors, AED issued a special grant to Martha's Table to support an Expanded Summer School program for children in the District of Columbia.