“They give out hot food from trusted volunteers and restaurants, as well as bag lunches from a group called Home-y Made Meals, a partnership between Polo’s Pantry and another community nonprofit, Eayikes, which recruits volunteers to make meals in their own kitchens, while coordinating other volunteers to pick them up for redistribution.”
- Phoenix Tso for LA Public Press 2023
“That’s just a people-powered initiative,” she added. “Now, it’s its own movement.”
- Brian Park for LA Times 2021
“Initially, it was really small, thinking of how some of us could make some meals, because a lot of churches and other nonprofits were stopping service to shelter in place…”
- Jamie Loftus for Knock LA 2020
“they
[Eayikes]
partnered with Acedera to create a logistics team of hundreds of volunteers that handle everything from preparing meals to distributing them”
— Lexis Olivier Ray for LA Taco 2020
“Learning to flow with things that occur outside of our control has played a critical part in us sustaining this 5+ year journey of empowering others to live a more fulfilled life.”
— Voyage LA 2019
“…a day with Eayikes gave me a glimpse of what the world might look like if serving others was mainstream. And how it can change if we band together to show radical love to people we would normally avoid, lift others up instead of labelling them, and find satisfaction and fulfillment in working for mankind…”
— Nicole Nordstrom for New Sincerity 2017
“Imaginations are boundless, but sometimes it takes a little support to believe in your own.”
— Melati Citrawireja for New Sincerity 2017
“At a time when young people are exposed to such negativity online, Eayikes is working to instill positive attributes in the future generation of this country.”
— Kathleen O'Brien for Nation Swell 2014
“A lot of butterflies in the stomach [from] being put on the spot,” says another young woman. “But everyone was all acceptance, acceptance, acceptance.”
— Jed Oelbaum for GOOD magazine 2014
“Eayikes! It's not an exclamation, it's an amazing program for high school students that just completed its first "camp."“
— Elizabeth Thomas for The Grunion Gazette 2013
The Donuts Camp Eayikes Fundraiser at King King Hollywood, feat. Josh Billings, Them Jeans, dr. oc2pus, Kinjaz, and more!
— FarahStop 2013