Updated 12/25/2009 04:49 PM
Hundreds Of Volunteers Prepare Holiday Meals For Chronically Ill
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Hundreds of volunteers spent Christmas helping those in need.
God's Love We Deliver prepared 2,700 meals for roughly 1,800 people living with HIV, AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses. The extra meals are for friends, neighbors, or anyone else the clients wish to invite to share the holiday with them.
Included in the delivery is a "blizzard box" – which has food to keep on hand during the winter months.
Organizers say this is the largest Christmas delivery in the agency's history.
"Many, many, many volunteers are helping out,” said Pascal Segelbacher, a chef with God’s Love We Deliver. “I have a great staff and a week ago, we planned and we slowly executed the plan. We're trying to do a nutritious meal, well balanced."
"You really feel a sense of warmth inside the kitchen. And you feel like you're giving back to the community and it's a way of feeding people who can't maybe feed themselves,” said volunteer Eric Dubno.
Since its founding in 1986, God's Love We Deliver has brought more than 10-million meals to its clients and has never had a waiting list.