Puff Puff Pass The Love describes themselves as “a beginning stage community of cannabis supporters who love giving back”, and with a name like Puff Puff Pass the Love, one might assume the focus of the organization is centered around cannabis, but this is not the case.
Puff Puff Pass The Love has been helping houseless communities in Reno obtain the resources they may have a hard time obtaining themselves, such as healthy food through regular distributions, bedding, and sanitary items such as baby wipes and hand sanitizer. In a community like Reno which has a population of hundreds and hundreds of individuals without stable shelter, this is no small undertaking.
I attended an April outing of the group at the homeless camp located under the Wells Street Bridge. Being relatively new to reporting I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. One might expect a feeling of doom and gloom when attending an event like this, especially in a town like Reno with an ever-growing affordable housing crisis, but what stuck out the most to me was the sense of community I felt between the volunteers and those they were helping. Although the distribution itself lasted only around ten to fifteen minutes between the volunteers showing up in their SUV, handing out food to everyone in line, and packing up and heading out, I could tell that the volunteers had a passion for helping those who need it.
The SUV Tony Doara and another volunteer served food out of to the people residing in the camp. “The people are happy for our help and we’re happy to help them,” she said. The group has an Amazon Wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1Q5VWNFLOHMHO?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwAR0v8yBrEB_cTaYStzB2FotXw1IwHspLDafdfecMkmkjHCeXlLr3qDQ5lwA