PeopleCare Center to Provide Thanksgivig Meal Kits

The PeopleCare Center for Non-Profits (PCC), located at 120 Finderne Avenue in Bridgewater, NJ, has partnered with the Greater Somerset County YMCA facility in Somerville to provide Thanksgiving food bags for 150 local families.

Distribution is scheduled for Sunday, November 22, 2020 beginning at 11:15 A.M. The Somerville Branch of the YMCA is located at 2 Green Street in the Borough. Masks and social distancing are required.

The PCC will assemble bags with the necessary dry goods to prepare Thanksgiving dinner along with a $25.00 Shop Rite gift card to enable families to purchase a turkey. Recipients will be required to sign in and asked if they receive subsidy such as TANF, Medicaid, etc. Not receiving the subsidy will not preclude families from participation

In this year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PCC Board thought that helping those within our community who are the most in need would be a good start to the 2020 holiday season.

For information oin the program call the PeopleCare Center at 908-725-2299 or the Somerville Branch of the YMCA at 908-722-4567, ext. 613.

BACKGROUNDER

“Taste of Somerset,” has become a model for culinary fund raising events. Hundreds of local businesses have benefited from the exposure and thousands have enjoyed the finest cuisine representing every corner of the world. And most importantly, the tenants of the PeopleCare Center, and the thousands upon thousands of the people that they serve, have benefited from the money that has been raised. “Taste” has generated approximately $500,000 for the PeopleCare Center. The funds raised serve to provide a secure, comfortable, and affordable home to non-profit agencies.

PeopleCare Center was established in 1984 as a permanent home for human service agencies. PeopleCare is a private non-profit organization in Somerset County which provides a physical plant to house non-profit agencies and organizations at below market cost. The Center seeks to maximize the accomplishment of community service goals by encouraging sharing of human and physical resources. Among the services addressed by PeopleCare tenants are homelessness, literacy, child care, foster care children, education, and individuals of all ages with various disabilities.