Boca Helping Hands is seeking community support to provide Thanksgiving meals to local families. Its 22nd annual Thanksgiving Box Brigade program, which provides a turkey, and a box filled with everything a family needs to prepare a holiday meal, will feed approximately 24,000 people.
Members of the community can get involved by donating the cost of a box for $29.72 at bocahelpinghands.org/
One in eight people in Palm Beach County are struggling to put food on the table. Rising food costs, housing expenses, and stagnant wages have only intensified the need for food assistance programs in Palm Beach County.
Community members can also pick up five or more boxes from Boca Helping Hands and fill them with Thanksgiving foods. Here’s a list of what goes into each box. These boxes must be delivered to Boca Helping Hands by Monday, November 16.
Thanksgiving Box Brigade supporters include the Overall Sponsor, Dalfen Industrial; East Boca Sponsor, Bob and Anita Kriensky; West Boca Sponsor, Polyglass USA, Inc.; Boynton Beach Sponsor, Purity Wholesale Grocers Inc.; Delray Beach Sponsor, Vertical Bridge; Lake Worth Sponsor, Vivmark Residential; and Holiday Hero, Levine Family Foundation.
Boca Helping Hands will distribute the turkeys and Thanksgiving meal boxes to current Pantry Bag Program clients the weekend before Thanksgiving at its five drive-thru distribution locations in east Boca Raton, West Boca, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, and Lake Worth.
“Thank you in advance to the community! By running food drives in their neighborhoods or at their places of work, filling Thanksgiving boxes or donating the cost of a box, it will make all the difference,” said BHH CEO Andrew Hagen. “Thanks to them, families who might not have had enough money to afford to celebrate can now share a holiday meal together.”
Although there has been strong community support for the Thanksgiving Box Brigade program, food insecurity remains a problem year-round – especially now with reductions in funding for food.
Any contributions that exceed Thanksgiving expenses will be used toward the organization’s food programs throughout the year, helping to support the 200,000 families in Palm Beach County facing food insecurity.
