ADVISORY/The Greater Boston Food Bank Provides Thanksgiving Meals to Boys and Girls Clubs.Calendar Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (Nov. 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: On Thursday, November 21, from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Greater Boston Food Bank will be providing Thanksgiving meals to hundreds of children who participate in its Kids Cafe programs. Holiday activities will be part of the afternoon's festivities. Staff from The Food Bank will be serving turkey with all of the trimmings at both the Thomas Chew Boys and Girls Club in Fall River and the West End Boys and Girls Club in Allston. The Thanksgiving meals are the result of special holiday sponsorships provided by Fidelity Investments, Garelick Farms, Jonathan's Organics, and Brady Enterprises. Kids Cafe, which is run by America's Second Harvest Food Banks across the nation, is one of the largest free meal service programs for children in the United States. Since the program's inception in The Food Bank's service area of eastern Massachusetts, Kids Cafes have become a central tool in its effort to end childhood hunger. The primary goal of the Kids Cafe program is to provide free, prepared food and nutrition education to hungry children. The Greater Boston Food Bank runs four Kids Cafes including ones at the YWCA Generation Living Together Center in Dorcester, the Orchard Garden Community Center in Roxbury and the two Boys and Girls Club locations. -0-
WHERE: The Thomas Chew Boys and Girls Club
803 Bedford Street
Fall River, MA 02720
www.fallriverbgc.org
Dinner served at 5:30 pm
The West End Boys and Girls Club
105 Allston Street
Allston, MA 02134
www.abhealthy.org
Dinner served at 5:00 pm
About The Greater Boston Greater Boston is the area of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts surrounding the city of Boston, Massachusetts. While Metro Boston tends to be the "Inner Core" surrounding the City of Boston, Greater Boston overlaps the North and South Shores, as well as the MetroWest region. Food Bank The Greater Boston Food Bank is a non-profit clearinghouse clearinghouse Institution established by firms engaged in similar activities to enable them to offset transactions with one another in order to limit payment settlements to net balances. for donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. food, which is distributed to a network of over 800 food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters Homeless shelters are temporary residences for homeless people. Usually located in urban neighborhoods, they are similar to emergency shelters. The primary difference is that homeless shelters are usually open to anyone, without regard to the reason for need. , daycare centers for children at risk, and other charitable feeding agencies throughout nine counties of eastern Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. . The Greater Boston Food Bank is one of New
England's largest hunger HungerA term most commonly used to refer to the subjective feelings that accompany the need for food; however, the study of this topic has come to include consideration of the overall control of food intake. relief organizations, annually distributing over 19 million pounds of food, which is the equivalent of 15 million meals. |
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