The company said the donations are “part of its ongoing commitment to help eliminate hunger in the communities it serves.”<\/p>\n
YORK, Pa. \u2014 GIANT and MARTIN’S will donate 3,000 hams to 14 hunger relief partner organizations across the state, including three in Central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
The company said the donations are “part of its ongoing commitment to help eliminate hunger in the communities it serves,” GIANT said Monday in a press release.<\/p>\n
“Protein is the heart of a nutritious meal, and every family deserves that,” said Courtney Hopcraft, manager of community relations and strategic partnerships with the GIANT Company. “With this donation, we are delivering that essential protein to help our local hunger relief partners ensure families have this key center-of-the-plate item for their weeknight dinners or special celebrations.”<\/p>\n
Among the local relief partners who will be receiving hams from GIANT are:<\/p>\n
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank in HarrisburgLancaster County Food Hub in LancasterYork County Food Bank in York <\/p>\n
“We are so grateful to the GIANT Company for their donation of 200 hams ahead of the spring holidays,” said Jay Worrell, president of Helping Harvest, a food bank serving Berks County. “This donation comes at a time when too many of our neighbors are struggling with food insecurity, and these hams will help put meals on many tables.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Additionally, we appreciate the GIANT Company’s commitment to regular volunteering. Whether distributing food at a Mobile Market or packing food at our warehouse, their team members bring positivity and commitment every time they join us.”<\/p>\n
GIANT added its customers can help donate to neighbors in need. From now through April 5, customers can donate their free ham certificates at the register in-store to a local food bank. For more information on the ham redemption program, including how to donate your ham certificate, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company said the donations are “part of its ongoing commitment to help eliminate hunger in the communities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-139697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}