Donations are needed for the annual Christmas Food Box campaign.
Each year, 1,700 boxes are filled with a Christmas dinner, including a turkey roll, and all the fixings.
“We can only have a maximum of 1700 because that’s the size of the Moncton Coliseum. That’s the maximum amount of boxes that we can get ready,” says Donna Eagle, Community Engagement Coordinator for the Peter McKee Community Food Centre.
Each box contains around $100 worth of food, and it also includes a few food items that will help those in need get through the week.
Boxes will be packed on December 17 at the Moncton Coliseum, and Eagles says around 400 volunteers assist with that. Then on the afternoon of December 18, hundreds more volunteers pull up at the Coliseum and help to deliver those boxes to those who have registered for the Christmas food box program.
Donations to fill those boxes come from community support.
