Burlington Food Shelf Turkey Drive

In response to a growing need for hunger relief services over the years we have relocated twice to larger sites including our 1994 move into our current location.

Burlington food shelf turkey drive. Nbc5 s tom messner is in burlington to help collect donated turkey s for the chittenden food shelf s annual thanksgiving drive. Junior league of champlain valley women building better communities. Through our food shelf we provide local families and individuals facing hunger with a week s supply of groceries and prepared meals. Queen city saints a local non profit held their seventh annual turkey drive sunday.

Donations can be dropped off at 228 n. The burlington food shelf surpassed its turkey drive goal by almost 1 000 birds as of monday. We will be doing a variety of tasks as assigned that day including moving turkeys and other donations helping clients in the distribution areas and stocking and packaging food. The chittenden emergency food shelf initially operated a small pantry program that provided a three day supply of groceries once per month to a few dozen families.

We also offer fresh produce and bread five days per week. The food shelf accepts turkeys fixings or monetary donations. If you find yourself near hannaford on dorset street in south burlington stop in and support the food shelf with the purchase of the hannaford fight hunger reusable bags. The food shelf receives a 25 donation for each hannaford fight hunger bag sold.

It is open for drop offs and donations weekdays 10 a m. The majority of the birds were donated to the feeding chittenden food shelf. The goal was to collect 3 500 this year. Burlington turkey drive collects more than 600 birds for food shelf.

To 6 p m. Donate to the chittenden food shelf s thanksgiving turkey drive. We will be volunteering as part of chittenden emergency food shelf s turkey drive and giveaway. By monday morning 4 423 turkeys had been donated.