Local Company Helps Food Pantry Which Serves Thousands Each Month
By Kim Glovas
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A local home health care provider delivered hundreds of boxes of cereal to a Southwest Philadelphia food pantry this week. It was part of an effort to mark the Martin Luther King holiday and Black History Month.
Dozens of people lined up outside the Eastwick Mission House Food Pantry on Lindbergh Boulevard. Director Annette Glover says she serves more than 2,000 people each month.
"Some of them don't have hardly nothing, their income is bad," said Glover.
Mercy Home Health Care is in it's second year of working with the food pantry, thanks to Rodney Roberson (left in above photo) who works for Mercy.
"I talked to my Director last year about starting a mission to feed the kids, and we came up with a cereal drive as opposed to the normal canned good drive," said Roberson.
Roberson and other volunteers helped deliver 500 boxes of cereal to the food pantry this week. He attended Eastwick United Methodist years ago and says it still holds a special place in his heart.
