Health & Fitness
Music, Movies, and Help for your Neighbors!
On Sunday, Parishioners at the Church of the Good Shepherd loaded 35 bags of canned goods for delivery to the Center for Food Action, along with $25 in gift cards. Donations came from Good Shepherd, Music and Movies Under the Stars, and All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Leonia. Thank you!
You can join this effort to help neighbors in Bergen County who struggle to make ends meet when salaries are low, housing, child care and food prices high, or people face medical crises, unemployment, or underemployment.
Bring a can of food to Music and Movies under the Stars, sponsored by the Fort Lee Film Commission. The Church of the Good Shepherd will be collecting food at the next three concerts. You can also bring checks, which Good Shepherd will match (up to $1500 total), or bring food or mail checks made out to Center for Food Action to 1576 Palisade Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ 07024 before September 8.
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Over 1000 families from Fort Lee were helped by CFA in 2012. 67,441 emergency food & holiday packages were distributed. Here’s a summary of 2012 statistics from cfanj.org, the Center for Food Action website.
* An emergency food package consists of seven days worth of food; the amount of food a household receives is based on family size. On average, an emergency food package consists of 6 bags of groceries.
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* CFA provided Thanksgiving food packages to 3,210 households – 10,144 people. As needed, CFA clients can come for food packages up to 12 times a year.
* CFA helped 1,455 households with other basic needs: Rent, Security Deposits, Utility & Heating Bills and Miscellaneous Assistance.
* CFA distributed 16,211 Weekend Snack Packs to low-income children in three local elementary schools.
* 3,489 Little Ferry and Moonachie residents affected by Hurricane Sandy received emergency food, supermarket gift cards and other critical supplies from CFA’s mobile distribution.
Thank you to Tom Meyers and The Fort Lee Film Commission, The Schumann Fund for New Jersey (source of a matching grant), and all who have donated so far this summer.
