HOLIDAY MEALS AT GCCC

Each year GCCC invites needy men, women and families to join us for holiday meals at our Soup Kitchen. Meals are served by a host of volunteers who give up their own Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day to ensure that no one will go hungry on the holidays. Meals are served to 200-250 individuals who also receive a takeaway dinner to enjoy the following day.  In addition, volunteers deliver approximately 300 meals to homebound individuals and families across the county.  All in all, GCCC will provide more than 2,000 meals over the upcoming holiday season.

Prior to Thanksgiving, bags of groceries are also provided to local families from our Housing Services program who have family members living with HIV/AIDs and/or mental illness as well as to the families of children who participate in our After-School Mentoring Program.  With the groceries provided, these families are able to prepare holiday meals in their own homes.

You can help us fill plates and bags by donating food or organizing a food drive.  Following are the food items we need most this year.

Please contact Emily Gallagher at 914-949-3098 ext. 130 or egallagher@gcccares.org to arrange drop off or pick up.  Thank you.

ITEMS WE MOST NEED TO PROVIDE HOLIDAY MEALS THIS YEAR

Food donations can be dropped off at:
Grace Church Community Center, 35 Orchard St., White Plains
OR
Contact Emily Gallagher at: 914-949-3098 ext. 130, egallagher@gcccares.org

CANNED & PACKAGED GOODS Stuffing Cranberry sauce Canned vegetables (green beans, corn, yams etc.) Canned fruit Gravy mix Canned gravy Canned ham Instant potatoes Rice Elbow macaroni Canned Milk Pie filling Pie crust mix Canned fruit Coffee Tea Soda Potato Chips Sugar Condiments Individual packets of sugar & sugar substitutes Individual packets of salt and pepper

FRESH FOOD Ham Turkey Potatoes Vegetables Dinner rolls Desserts, Fresh fruit OTHER SUPPLIES Styrofoam dinner plates (sectioned variety) Soup bowls Dessert plates Plastic Cutlery Napkins Hot and cold cups Large 3-sectional Styrofoam take-out covered containers

Your support will make it possible for us to continue to meet
the needs of a growing and underserved population.
Thank you!