Food giveaway draws crowds in ‘moment of evangelization’
A staff member from archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services (NDS) distributes food packages during a Feb. 6 giveaway at Holy Innocents Parish in Philadelphia, one of several such events the agency has hosted in response to rising COVID-related food insecurity. (Gina Christian)
By Gina Christian • Posted February 12, 2021
Hundreds of families lined the streets surrounding a Philadelphia parish last weekend to receive urgently needed food assistance.
“We are seeing more and more of a need, not less,” said dietician Jean Falk of archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services (NDS). “Our numbers (of clients) are just increasing.”
Falk joined dozens of coworkers and volunteers for a Feb. 6 food distribution at Holy Innocents Parish in the city’s Juniata Park section. The drive-through and walk-up event, one of several organized by the agency in recent months, provided some 1,000 boxes of produce, meat and
Archdiocesan food giveaway draws hundreds amid bitter cold
Religious of the Assumption Sister Gertrude Borres, director of the archdiocesan Office for the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees, gathers fresh bread for her ministry s clients at a Jan. 30 food distribution hosted by archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services near the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. (Gina Christian)
By Gina Christian • Posted February 2, 2021
Archdiocesan staff and volunteers braved last weekend’s freezing temperatures and icy winds to provide hundreds of meals to area families hard hit by COVID.
The Jan. 30 food distribution which took place in the parking lot of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, located behind the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul was sponsored by Nutritional Development Services (NDS).
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