Operation Homefront
When mom or dad are serving overseas, budgets can get tight back home. Especially in the current financial crisis, more and more families are having trouble covering groceries, diapers and pet food. But that will be a bit easier after this weekend.
Operation Homefront helps the families of soldiers when times get tough.
“We offer help if they run into a financial crisis and can’t pay their rent or their electric bill. Stuff like that,” says Becky Ginsbach, a program coordinator with the Portland chapter. Beyond cash, they also send care packages overseas and now, they’re offering care packages at home.
Saturday morning, volunteers will cut the ribbon on a brand new food pantry offering boxes of groceries, baby supplies and pet food to families who have hit a rough patch. Ginsbach tells Good News PDX she expects to see an increase in the already rising demand for help as Oregon sets to deploy 3,500 more soliders next weekend.
The entire project is covered through donations and volunteers. You can help by clicking here.
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