A Boy Scout from Troop 99 in Brooklyn helps a neighborhood church with its meals pantry service.
For the reason that begin of the pandemic, St. Athanasius Church has been feeding 200 to 250 households weekly. On Wednesdays, they maintain a meals pantry program that causes traces to type down the road.
Over the previous yr, the church has supplied meals to over 1,000 households and has given out meals over 20,000 occasions.
The church says authorities packages that allowed them to carry the Wednesday pantry occasions have been working out of sources.
Boy Scout Gus took the initiative to assist the church by holding a meals donation drive Sunday as part of his Eagle Scout mission.
“That is for my Eagle mission, it means I’ve to do one thing in the neighborhood as a pacesetter, and I took the initiative to do that as a result of I do know this meals pantry is working low on meals and there is people who lineup down the road each Wednesday,” Gus says.
St. Athanasius Church says they’re overtly accepting donations at any time and so they want bread, nonperishables and greens.
