'No one should go hungry @ Xmas’ - Lynette L. Harrigan
For this reason, she said a group of volunteers teamed up to do their part to ensure that this goal was accomplished.
“No one in our Territory should go hungry because they cannot afford to purchase food. This is a strong belief of the Rotary family, and whilst we certainly subscribe to the old adage 'Give a man a Fish, and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever', few among us need to be assisted until they can fend for themselves,” she said speaking with this news site today December 23, 2014.
"That is why we at Rotary Club of Tortola have been partnering with the Family Support Network (FSN) on this food drive. The second was done last week in the heart of the Christmas season,” said Harrigan.
The Rotary Club of Tortola kept a promise made in August 2014, to conduct another food drive for the FSN during the holiday season.
It all happened Wednesday and Thursday evenings of last week, December 17 and 18, 2014. Volunteers from the Elmore Stoutt High School, the FSN and the Rotary Club of Tortola, assembled outside local supermarkets where they greeted old friends, made new ones, and collected boxes of food to help feed needy families just in time for Christmas.
RiteWay Food Markets, Bobby’s Supermarket and One Mart were the locations where generous residents happily contributed towards the drive.
President of the Rotary Club of Tortola Henry O. Creque expressed a huge 'thank you' to the Virgin Islands community for again opening their hearts and wallets and giving to this cause; and wished everyone a safe, joyous and love-filled holiday season.
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