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By SAGE Eldercare
11/6/2009
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Jack Klausner, a six-year-old who spent his days leading up to this past Halloween collecting food for SAGE Eldercare’s Portable Pantry, displays with his mom, Dominique, over one hundred non-perishable food items that he collected.
Jack’s neighborhood food drive began after he learned from his mother that food banks in the area were short on donations. So Jack, with the help of his mother and two year-old sister, distributed flyers in mailboxes asking neighbors to donate a variety of non-perishable goods so they could support SAGE’s Portable Pantry, which is unique because it helps to expand SAGE’s existing emergency food supply into a mobile food pantry. Over a ten day period, neighbors deposited items such as nutrition bars, canned soups, canned fruits and vegetables, snack items, juice boxes, and much more, in a box labeled "Food Drive," which was placed at the Klausner’s front door.
Jack recently delivered all the food he collected to SAGE Eldercare’s headquarters in Summit, where both on-site and mobile Portable Pantries are maintained.
The Portable Pantry supplies and distributes non-perishable meal boxes/bags to homebound seniors at risk of hunger and poor nutrition living in Union, Essex and Morris Counties. If you are interested in donating to SAGE’s Portable Pantry, non-perishable food items can be dropped off in SAGE Eldercare’s lobby, 290 Broad Street, Summit. Or for more information about Portable Pantry donations, or volunteering opportunities at SAGE, call 908-598-5514, or visit SAGE’s web site at www.sageeldercare.org.
Photo above: Jack Klausner, a six-year-old who spent his days leading up to this past Halloween collecting food for SAGE Eldercare’s Portable Pantry, displays with his mom, Dominique, over one hundred non-perishable food items that he collected
Photo courtesy of SAGE Eldercare
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