United Food Bank will distribute holiday food items, including frozen turkeys, during its regularly scheduled Friday food distribution. The food bank is prepared to distribute as many as 1,700 frozen turkeys to households in need of food assistance.
The event will take place on Friday, November 20, 2020, 7 a.m. to noon at the Mesa Convention Center, 263 N. Center St.
United Food has been providing hunger relief to people in need in the East Valley and eastern Arizona for more than 35 years. As a Feeding America member food bank, we collect, acquire, store and distribute food and related commodities to more than 220 partner agencies, serving over 228,000 people in five counties. In 2019, United Food Bank distributed almost 24 million pounds of food providing nearly 19.5 million meals to our neighbors in need. In response to the economic impact of COVID-19, the food bank projects it will distribute nearly 29 million pounds of food (24 million meals) this year. Visit us at UnitedFoodBank.org. Follow us on Twitter @unitedfoodbank.
