PARSIPPANY — Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany presented a $500.00 check to Family Promise of Morris County’s Jolin Food Box Program at a recent meeting at the Empire Diner in Parsippany. For more information on the Jolin Food Box Program click here.
Family Promise partners with Jolin Food Boxes, a private organization, to help formerly homeless families and single women prepare nutritious meals on a budget. Buying food in large bulk quantities for over 20 years, Jolin Food Boxes partners with local non-profit organizations, churches, senior centers, housing projects, and other organizations dedicated to assisting needy community members. Each food box contains $100.00 worth of frozen, refrigerated, and other grocery items unobtainable from other sources for $39.00.
Social workers at Family Promise report that donations have already made a significant difference in the lives of families with interrupted benefits and other emergency situations. Community support is particularly helpful, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture no longer permits individuals to use SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – aka food stamps) to purchase food boxes.
Serving Morris County since 1988, Family Promise is dedicated to ending the crisis of homelessness by partnering with public and private agencies, congregations and 1600+ community volunteers to provide shelter, case management, and mentoring services leading to self-sufficiency.
For more information regarding Family Promise of Morris County and Jolin Food Boxes, please contact Joann Bjornson at j.bjornson@familypromisemorris.org or (973) 998-0820, or click here.
Kiwanis Club of Greater Parsippany meets on Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Empire Diner, Route 46. For more information, click here.
