Reaching-Out charity group asks for help with Thanksgiving drive
Turkey donation shortage threatens holiday for hundreds of families
A Bensonhurst-based charity that has fed thousands of hungry families in Southwest Brooklyn over the years is now looking for help itself. Reaching-Out Community Services is short of turkeys to distribute to needy families at its pre-Thanksgiving Operation Gobbler Giving event, according to Thomas Neve, the founder and executive director of the organization.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” Neve candidly told the Brooklyn Eagle on Monday.
Reaching-Out might have to do the unthinkable: turn people away.
“It looks like some families won’t be getting turkeys this year,” Neve said.