BREWER, Maine (WABI) - An enactment successful Brewer is gearing up to assistance section families this Thanksgiving successful a large way.
Food and Medicine kicked disconnected their 20-th yearly Solidarity Harvest lawsuit this weekend.
Dozens of volunteers from the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor’s Youth Program showed up to assistance retired Sunday morning.
Volunteers were hard astatine enactment dividing and weighing produce, and packing 1,600 boxes to beryllium dispersed to families successful the region, and crossed the authorities this vacation season.
Food and Medicine raised betwixt $55,000 and $60,000 to acquisition the goods successful these boxes from section farmers.
Each container volition provender a household of 8 to 10 people.
”Food AND Medicine lone distributes astir 50 to 60 boxes straight to individuals,“ said FAM Director Jack McKay. “The remainder spell to astir 100 antithetic groups, truthful they spell to churches, they spell to non-profit mission-driven agencies, they spell to unions. The thought is that they successful crook springiness it to their people. Our extremity is to fortify these groups truthful that our assemblage is much resilient.”
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