2025 Winner’s Nomination Entry

I met Aida 13 years ago at preschool registration. She approached me and told me she was new in town and God had just told her to ask me to be her child’s emergency contact. I giggled and told her well if he told you -sign me up. We became really good friends and still are to this day. Through the years Aida would get food donations from different stores and deliver them in the trunk of her car. She would show up at my house all the time but I wouldn’t take any. I told her to go give to others because we were ok. A few years ago she started renting uhauls and delivering to Ware, Palmer and Monson! She uses her own money to rent the trucks and goes to get the food donations and then she puts out posts to the different towns telling them when she would be arriving. She had purchased a truck with donations but recently it has broken down. She was guided by an attorney to open a non profit and has succeeded in doing so! She is able to take donations and apply them to her costs of running the trucks. She only asks the people picking up food to donate whatever they can to help with fuel or truck rental costs. Hundreds of people show up every time she posts her location. She also donates clothing, and holiday gifts for the children. She is guided by her faith and she is an angel to many in the area. I am very grateful that God spoke to her all those years ago and picked me to be her family’s friend. If anyone deserves this vehicle that Hyundai is giving away it is her.
— 2025 Nomination
 

Hyundai Salute To Heroes Springfield 2025 Winner Aida Torres