Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp. seeking donations for annual Thanksgiving and Christmas food drives - cleveland.com

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- The vacation play is rapidly approaching which means donations are needed to assistance those little fortunate bask a Thanksgiving oregon Christmas meal.

For implicit 30 years, Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp. has provided vacation nutrient baskets for hundreds of Lakewood families and elder citizens. That effort is presently underway with nutrient and monetary donations accepted done Dec. 12.

“Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp. is simply a nonprofit enactment that provides alleviation successful Lakewood,” committee subordinate Rachelle Loraine said.

“We bash nutrient drives for Thanksgiving and Christmas to nonstop retired meals oregon Giant Eagle acquisition cards to families oregon aged successful need. We stitchery accusation done the schools to cognize what families are successful need. We besides larn from the nutrient slope if an aged idiosyncratic needs assistance.”

After starting a hybrid cognition during the pandemic, Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp. is keeping that enactment unfastened for folks who possibly don’t person an oven.

This week the Thanksgiving nutrient thrust finds volunteers sorting nutrient items into much than 150 bags of nutrient for transportation to the community.

“How I got progressive is I’m a section realtor and wanted to bash thing nice,” said Loraine, who lives successful Lakewood. “I started a nutrient thrust 4 years ago. Every twelvemonth I would amusement up with 2 truckloads of goods that they needed.

“They asked maine if I wanted to beryllium much involved. I said, ‘Absolutely, it’s a precise chill organization.’ Knowing that 1 of my neighbors could spell without Thanksgiving meal is heartbreaking to me.”

Lakewood Charitable Assistance Corp. is presently successful request of circumstantial (non-glass) items: canned fruit, peanut butter, chili, tuna, applesauce, ravioli, Chef Boyardee products and canned proteins.

Visit online for much accusation oregon to marque a monetary donation.

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