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The North Texas Food Bank hosted a giveaway that drew thousands of families, making it the largest event the organization has held.
At the giveaway, over 7,000 turkeys and 600,000 pounds of food were given to families in need for the holidays, CBS 21 DFW reported. This was the fifth food giveaway at Fair Park since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dallas residents were grateful for the giveaway.
“I see blessings coming to us cause we all struggling and I appreciate North Texas helping us out,” resident Samantha Woods said while waiting in her car.
Resident Cynthia Culter said she was in line for food because she hasn't been working for nearly a year.
“I haven’t been working since December, can’t find a job, they cut my unemployment, it’s a real big deal,” Culter said.
The food given away would be enough to feed 25,000 people.
“It was a whole lot of people who pitched in on this, me partnering up with the North Texas Food Bank, the Tarrant County Food Bank, Pastor Brown bringing in those volunteers and the Baptist Ministers Union,” Mitchell Ward, CEO of MW Logistics, said.
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