Help us feed 900+ families in Westchester this holiday season!!
The annual Thanksgiving-in-a-Box food drive for needy families, now in its 16th year, will once again be an interfaith Pelham event. This year the drive will be coordinated through Huguenot Memorial Church, the Pelham Jewish Center, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Catharine’s Parish, Christ Church, and Pelham Community Church and the Bronxville Reformed Church. Our volunteers will be partnering with Family Services of Westchester and providing boxes of food to families in FSW’s Port Chester, Tarrytown, Mount Vernon, Yonkers, White Plains and Pelham locations.
We are asking volunteers to assemble a box of food for a family of 6-8 people. Last year, we were able to provide much needed food for 900 families and we are hoping to do the same again but we can only do that with your help!!
Manor Market will once again have competitive prices and will be fulfilling boxes and helping the coordination.
If you are going to be away or if the box is too difficult to carry please call 914-636-2208 and they will put a box together for you and get it to the church. Cost is $75. (Manor Market 4775-77 Boston Post Road, Pelham Manor NY)
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE? It is really simple!
STEP 1:
Contact one of us let us know you’d like to put together a box! Or call Manor Market 914-636-2208
Huguenot Memorial Church:
Pelham Community Church Genette Gill 919-260-3807(gennette@gmail.com)
Bronxville Reformed Nursery School Kate Carey 781-799-5310 (katherine.mary.margaret@gmail.com)
STEP 2.
Buy the specific food items (outlined below) and pack the box. Make it a family affair!
STEP 3.
Bring the box to the Huguenot Memorial Church library.
Boxes can be dropped off between 9-5pm from Saturday November 20- Tuesday November 23, 2021.
If you are interested in helping deliver the boxes on
Wednesday morning 7-9am November 24, 2021, please email tconstable@prh.com.
Thanksgiving-in-a-Box items include: (NOTE: Everything will fit inside the box except for the ham)
● 1 pre-cooked sliced spiral ham (8-10 pounds – you will find these in the meat section of your grocery store. Please, no canned hams)
● 2 (28-32oz) bags of rice
● 6 (15 oz) canned vegetables (any kind of vegetable that is available due to COVID shortages)
● 1 (5 pound) bag of potatoes –approximately 12 potatoes
● 1 (3 pound) bag of apples – approximately 8-10 apples
● 1 (1 pound) box of pasta (any kind)
● 1 (24 oz) jar of tomato sauce (any kind)
● 1 bag/container of cookies (Oreos and the like kind of packaging are perfect)
● 2 (64oz) containers juice (please no cider or anything that needs to be refrigerated!)
About Family Services of Westchester: Family Services of Westchester is a private, not-for-profit, non-sectarian agency located in Westchester County, New York. Founded in 1954, with headquarters in Port Chester, New York, Family Services is dedicated to supporting families in need throughout Westchester through programs such as Family Mental Health Services; Adoption & Children’s Services; Head Start and Early Head Start; Senior Services; Home Health Care; Big Brothers-Big Sisters; AmeriCorps; Therapeutic Foster Care for Youth; and a spectrum of services for families living with HIV/AIDS.
