In the pandemic, Rhiannon Menn launched a platform called Lasagna Love. Through this platform, she helped deliver homemade meals to the neighbors in need and they’re still going strong.
In only two years since the launch, this platform has had more than 30,000 individuals participate from all over the world.
Amazingly, all of the participants have helped deliver more than 200,000 meals that have fed more than 850,000 people. A recent survey conducted by the platform shows that kindness has a network effect.
You get and then you want to give.
Inspired to Help Women, Rhiannon Launches Lasagna Love
This nonprofit program aims to connect members of a community through various acts of support, goodwill, and kindness.
Menn, in 2020, inspired by the Covid-related issues in the community and her feeling of being helpless, decided to do something and help deliver homemade food to the people in her neighborhood.
As a mom living in San Diego, Menn said that she knew of so many women with kids who had lost their jobs and childcare. She knew how stressed out they were.
This is what inspired her to one day decide to make several extra meals. It wasn’t long after that her desire to help out her community had grown into something so much bigger.
Within a period of two years, Lasagna Love has united more than 30,000 men and women from around the globe. With more meals being delivered, the ripple effect deepened.
Results from a Survey Done by Lasagna Love Show the Power of Giving & Kindness
According to the survey results, almost 98 percent of the recipients of a meal said that they were inspired to bring a meal to someone else.
And, many of them did: 21 percent of them made a meal for another person within several days and others, 45 percent of the surveyed people, said that they’re committed to doing something specific in the future.
The survey also notes that the recipients of the Lasagna Love meal felt more connected, 89 percent, and more supported, 93 percent, by their communities due to being presented with a homemade meal.
Menn notes that the mission of Lasagna Love was to give comfort in uncertain times. As the organization moves into its third year, they recognize that its real power is so much bigger.
They inspire others to pay it forward throughout their own communities and help create feelings of support and connection amongst each other.
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