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Help CAMBA’s food pantry provide Thanksgiving turkeys to 500 hungry neighborhood families (Sponsored)

Help CAMBA’s food pantry provide Thanksgiving turkeys to 500 hungry neighborhood families (Sponsored)
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Photo: courtesy of CAMBA

Last Thanksgiving, hundreds of neighbors lined up outside CAMBA’s Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry at 2241 Church Avenue to pick up holiday turkeys and all the fixings for a traditional meal.

Thanks to you – Ditmas Park Corner readers – every single one of them came away with arms and shopping carts filled with food.

Last year, our community came together and gave almost $11,000 to the local non-profit CAMBA, which meant they were able to provide a full Thanksgiving meal to hundreds of local families. We think we can do that again, and do it even better.

Volunteers at pantry (Photo: courtesy of CAMBA)

This year, we’re partnering  again with CAMBA’s  food pantry — which serves more than 4,000 people each month at its Church Avenue location — to bring 500 turkeys to local families this Thanksgiving, and we hope you’ll join us

CAMBA always gives what they can, but turkeys can stretch a pantry budget to the breaking point. So they’re asking for some help bringing Thanksgiving turkeys to hundreds of families in our community:

For $25, you can supply a turkey and all the trimmings for a family of six.

For $50, you’ll bring that to two families.

For $100, you’ll ensure that four families enjoy a memorable Thanksgiving meal.

For $250, you’ll treat 10 families the kind of Thanksgiving dinner that everyone should enjoy.

Lucila Santana, left, director of the food pantry, giving a turkey to a client. (Photo: courtesy of CAMBA)
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Shopping carts of turkeys ready for distribution (Photo: courtesy of CAMBA)

When we did this a year ago, support flooded in from neighbors throughout our area, and the “500 Turkeys for 500 Families” drive was a huge success – which showed when, during Thanksgiving week, the line of people waiting for turkeys stretched down Church Avenue – and no one left without a Thanksgiving meal in hand. Let’s make sure that happens again this year. Please give if you can!

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