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Friendship Corner: Food Backpacks

02/20/2017 

Start Date: 2014

Fifteen Knights, Dames, and Auxiliary provide monthly food backpacks for 3-4 year old children in Paterson, New Jersey. Food is distributed towards the end of the month when food stamps tend to run out, and children often go hungry.

Member meet once a month to organize this day which involves ordering the food, picking it up, and organizing it before packing it in backpacks.

Order of Malta

American Association, U.S.A
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Parish House
14 E 51st Street
New York, NY 10022
(212) 371-1522