New York, NY
- City Harvest, the world's first food rescue organization
dedicated to feeding New York City's hungry men, women, and
children, is conducting its annual High Holy Days Food Drive
from September 8th - October 8th. The
drive will begin before Rosh Hashanah and end after Sukkot.
New Yorkers are encouraged to bring nonperishable food items
to participating schools, synagogues, or offices.
Almost a quarter of a million Jewish people live in poverty
in New York City, as well as over 100,000 Jews just above
the poverty line that struggle on a daily basis to feed,
clothe, and house their families. City Harvest's High Holy
Days Food Drive is part of its larger Kosher Community
Project, which provides hungry New Yorkers that observe
Jewish dietary law with increased access to a wider variety
of kosher food while uncovering long-term solutions to
hunger that meet the unique needs of the observant
community. Kosher food collected during the High Holy Days
Food Drive will be delivered to one of City Harvest's 36
kosher program partners which together feed about 105,000
hungry men, women, and children each month, and non-kosher
food will be distributed to City Harvest's network of nearly
600 programs feeding hungry New Yorkers.
Running a
food drive for the High Holy Days is one way for New Yorkers
to come together at this special time to feed their hungry
neighbors. If your group will be collecting kosher food,
please keep it separate from any non-kosher food donations.
All types of kosher and non-kosher nonperishable food
donations are greatly appreciated. The most needed foods
are: canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned chicken and
canned fish, peanut butter (in plastic jars), macaroni and
cheese (packaged), and hot and cold cereal (packaged,
family-sized). Please contact
Gail Cammock at 917.351.8746 or
gcammock@cityharvest.org for more information
regarding the High Holy Days Food Drive.
About City Harvest
Now serving New York
City
for more than 25 years, City Harvest (http://www.cityharvest.org/)
is the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to
feeding the city's hungry men, women, and children. This
year, City Harvest will collect 28 million pounds of excess
food from all segments of the food industry, including
restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers,
and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to
nearly 600 community food programs using a fleet of trucks
and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City
Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their
next meal.
City Harvest also
addresses issues that surround hunger in
New York City
by supporting affordable access to nutritious food in
low-income communities, educating individuals, families, and
communities in the prevention of diet-related diseases,
channeling a greater amount of local farm food into
high-need areas, and enhancing the ability of our agency
partners to feed hungry men, women, and children.