Nov. 19, 2014 By Michael Florio
There is no shortage of residents looking for a hearty meal these days and one organization is looking to provide the hungry with some relief this winter.
City Harvest, a food rescue organization, will host its second annual 24-Hour Repackathon tomorrow in Long Island City, with the mission of delivering food to the hungry during the holiday season.
The event will take place at 55-02 2nd Street where hundreds of volunteers will aim to package more than 225,000 pounds of donated food—which will then be distributed to families and shelters across the city.
The volunteers will be given 24-hours to pack the food and will work in 3-hour shifts.
The event started last year as a way for City Harvest to package the donated food and increase awareness of poverty. Last year, 215,000 pounds of food was packaged in 24 hours.
The food will be delivered to more than 500 soup kitchens and food pantries, and will be enough to feed more than 2,100 families.
Samantha Park, the communications manager at City Harvest, said that the majority of the end recipients are from working families.
“There is usually at least one person in the family working full time,” she said. “With the expensive cost of living and other expenses, it is really difficult.”
Park said that one-in-five New Yorkers now live in poverty.
Park said that City Harvest tries to focus on gathering fresh produce, such as fruits and vegetables. The organization also receives a large supply of canned/sealed food, such as peanut butter and tuna fish, which has a long shelf life.
“This food is very nutritious,” she said.
Park said that the group has enough volunteers for tomorrow’s event.
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