Laurel Reid from PEAC Health & Fitness, right, and Lisa Brogan of Catholic Charities, left, fill a car full of food donated to a past Catholic Charities Summer Food Drive at PEAC.
During the month of July, PEAC Health and Fitness plans to collect non-perishable food items to support Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton.
All donations toward this summer hunger relief program will go to the Mercer Community Services food pantry, which is part of Catholic Charities’ hunger and homelessness prevention program. The items they need most are: canned meats and vegetables, soup, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, rice, pasta, pancake mixes and syrup, pudding, jello and juice boxes.
Because four in ten of the individuals Catholic Charities helps are children, the need becomes urgent in the summer. The one hot meal children would usually receive in school is no longer provided and many families can’t afford to stretch the budget further to buy more food. Catholic Charities programs are designed to support and fulfill these basic needs. The food pantry, located in Trenton, is available to any Mercer County resident in need of food.
For more information about Catholic Charities, visit catholiccharitiestrenton.org.
For more information about PEAC’s food drive, please contact Becky DiPierro at PEAC Health and Fitness at (609) 883-2000 or bdipierro@peachealthfitness.com, or visit peachealthfitness.com. PEAC is located at 1440 Lower Ferry Road in Ewing.
