Our Families Need Us: We're Giving $200K in Grocery Gift Cards
For every $25 donation, we will send you a holiday card with the One Voice donation message, meant as a gift for family, friends and coworkers.
Many of you have been asking what we will be doing this year for our Holiday Food Program. We wish we could have our traditional food packaging and giveaway, but we simply can’t. Sadly, Head Start still cannot accept fresh food for their families or have our joyous Holiday giveaway parties at their centers.
What is sadder still is that the pandemic continues to affect low-income families as years of job loss, layoffs and sickness continue to take their toll. Every day we receive referrals from Head Start for food, rent and the most basic of necessities like soap and toilet paper. While we continue to help our families year round, we know how much help during the holidays means.
For every $25 donation, we will send you a holiday card to give as a gift.
So, to help 2,000 Head Start families enjoy the holidays with a special meal, we are committed to giving each family a $100 grocery card from Ralphs, just as you helped us do in 2021. From last year’s thank you letters, in addition to having a wonderful holiday dinner, we know the families felt loved and cared about.
We hope you will help us again this year make our families feel special.
And just so you know, we have already booked the Barker Hangar for next year at the holidays so be ready to gather again for our long tradition of joyous food sorting and hugs and hope for our Head Start families in 2023!
What began in 1983 with just seventy families now helps 2,000 families, or about 10,000 people, every year. For the last 37 years, the One Voice Holiday Food Program has provided Christmas food baskets, toys and books to Head Start families living in poverty in the Los Angeles area. All of the families meet federal and state mandated poverty levels.
Our Holiday Food Program depends on the support and involvement of people living within our community. Over 2,000 volunteers come together every year at the Barker Hangar to sort and package the food during the week before the actual giveaway, and most importantly, are on hand at our various Head Start distribution centers to personally give out the food with a sense of caring and family involvement.
Living in poverty is especially hard during the holidays when there are no resources to make the holiday special. The food, toys, books and celebration provided by the One Voice volunteers bring much needed hope to families living in poverty that lasts well beyond the holiday season.