Hundreds of volunteers worked since before dawn Tuesday to pack Thanksgiving meals for New York City shelter residents.
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The initiative was started in 2001 by Robert LoCascio after the 9/11 terror attacks in an effort to help those in need. The giveaway has persisted over the past two decades, surviving the COVID-19 pandemic to bring joy to families across the five boroughs.“Today we’re going to be feeding 8,500 families full turkey dinners, frozen turkey and all the trimmings. So, basically, what you’re seeing here, we’re packing all the boxes with about 500 volunteers.
“We have 5,000 people a night, 2,500 of them are children right now. Seven hundred of the children are refugee children. We don’t have the money to buy all of them these items, which means if it wasn’t for FeedingNYC, our families wouldn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner. Everybody in the shelter has suffered some kind of trauma. But these [migrant] families have suffered trauma on a level that for us as Americans it is hard to even understand.
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