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City of Light
Helping hands
CITY OF LIGHT HELPINGS HANDS FOOD PANTRY
DISTRIBUTES FREE GROCERIES WEEKLY TO THE COMMUNITY
City of Light Helping Hands partners with community organizations to
provide free groceries to the public
CITY OF LIGHT HELPINGS HANDS FOOD PANTRY
DISTRIBUTES FREE GROCERIES WEEKLY TO THE COMMUNITY
City of Light Helping Hands partners with community organizations to
provide free groceries to the public
Every Sunday, participants line their cars from 8 am until distribution begins at 12:30 pm so that they can be at the front of the queue. Once distribution begins at 12:30 pm, hardworking volunteers place bags and boxes of food into their trunks.
The boxes and bags include essential food items such as rice, pasta, fruits, vegetables, eggs, bread, milk, canola oil, vegetable oil, cereal, beans, canned foods, and much more.
The groceries also include ethnic and cultural food items such as smoked fish (kuta and kini), palm oil, cassava leaves, kenkey, banku, Indian spices, masa brosa, etc. In addition, KPCI is very excited to announce that Montgomery County has given us a grant to acquire a refrigerated truck with a cooler/walk-in freezer.
This food truck allows us to serve even more families in need. Thank you Montgomery County!
The outpour of support has been tremendous. Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency, Ambassador Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai and his wife, recently joined us.
We were also joined by Montgomery County Councilmember - Will Jawando, Director of Eastern Montgomery County Regional Center - Jewru Bandeh, Rev. Kendra Smith from Kingdom Fellowship, Jackie DeCarlo – Chief Executive Officer of Manna Food Center, and Mayur Mody of American Diversity Group.
We are very grateful for our partnership with the various organizations and all the volunteers that work very hard each week to help make this possible. We would like to thank Amerigroup for donating grocery bags, and the African American Health Program for providing resources. A very big thank you to our partners, Josephine Garnem, Marla Caplon, and Patrick Campbell with Montgomery County, our volunteers, Administrative team, and our able Pastor, Rev. Dr. Abdul K. Sesay.
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