Photo courtesy of Washington for Justice.
The Washington for Justice organization wants to express their gratitude to those who helped make their inaugural holiday meal kit program an overwhelming success this December.
The group which formed last year hoped they could help Washington County families who had a difficult 2020, with the expectation of gathering around two dozen Midwestern and Latino-style meal kits. Washington for Justice Communications Director Bethany Glinsmann says they eventually collected enough community donations to provide 63 kits, “When our director Meredith Henderson had the idea for the meal kits, we were all really excited about it, and to see it grow into an event that was larger than we could have anticipated was really great. So I was really proud of our community for being generous and helping our fellow community members in a time of need. And seeing all the boxes of food there that morning when we were assembling everything was just really incredi