{"id":59469,"date":"2025-11-24T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:34:08","slug":"food-donations-in-high-demand-for-distributions-across-south-florida-as-thanksgiving-holiday-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59469\/","title":{"rendered":"Food donations in high demand for distributions across South Florida as Thanksgiving holiday nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Donations in high demand as food banks see surge of families in need <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The Homeless Trust has said more Miami-Dade County senior citizens are falling into homelessness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As Chapman Partnership said previously, they are witnessing an uptick in families with young children also needing assistance at a time when food banks county-wide are working to keep up with the demand for food assistance as high living cots from housing to groceries continue to take a toll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">City leaders in Doral on Monday said they were a expecting a larger than normal turnout for a Thanksgiving turkey giveaway sponsored by Butterball in partnership with American Foods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release, the city said, in part: <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs families continue to feel the strain of rising food costs and with recent uncertainty around the timing of nutrition assistance benefits. This year\u2019s giveaway comes at a significant moment. The event ensures Doral families can bring home a full Thanksgiving meal and the additional food support they need this holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The giveaway aims to distribute more than 500 turkeys and an additional 800-plus food items. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Catholic Charities is also making an urgent request for food donations, particularly essential proteins such as beef, poultry, fish and pork. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone interested in donating food is urged to contact Anaderky Macias at 954-540-8967 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/24\/food-donations-in-high-demand-for-distributions-across-south-florida-as-thanksgiving-holiday-nears\/mailto:amacias@ccadm.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amacias@ccadm.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LINKS &amp; INFO FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO HELP<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homelesstrust.org\/homeless-trust\/homeless-about\/home.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.homelesstrust.org\/homeless-trust\/homeless-about\/home.page\">The Homeless Trust<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chapmanpartnership.org\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/chapmanpartnership.org\/contact\/\">Chapman Partnership<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feedingsouthflorida.org\/directory-programs\/#googtrans(en|en)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/feedingsouthflorida.org\/directory-programs\/#googtrans(en|en)\">Feeding South Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmshare.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.farmshare.org\">Farm Share<\/a> (Federal employees can still visit any Farm Share location for free, fresh food.)<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christina Vazquez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/45804c80-b6e4-45e1-95.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christina Vazquez<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christina returned to Local 10 in 2019 as a reporter after covering Hurricane Dorian for the station. She is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist and previously earned an Emmy Award while at WPLG for her investigative consumer protection segment &#8220;Call Christina.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM Updated:\u00a0November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM Donations in high demand as food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-59469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}