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Bancroft Holding Food Drive

Donations will go to the Food Bank of South Jersey.

Bancroft, the center for people with developmental disabilities and aquired brain injuries, is holding an organization-wide food drive for the Food Bank of South Jersey. That organization is in need of donations because of growing need in challenging economic times.

Donation bins are located at multiple Bancroft sites, including the Farrington Building on the Haddonfield Campus, 425 Kings Highway East.

Food donations for the holidays are needed by Dec. 19. However, Bancroft will continue collecting food into 2012, as donations tend to drop off after the holidays, even though the need persists.

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The Food Bank of South Jersey supplies food to soup kitchens, churches and food pantries to help those in need in Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties.

More than 170,000 people in the South Jersey area are "food insecure," which has doubled from just a few years ago. Nearly a third of those in need are children.

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For more information, please contact Kathy Ross at 856-348-4008 or kross@bnh.org.

 


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