Peterborough Sharing and Caring Gets a Head Start on Christmas Hampers with Food Drive

Peterborough and Surrounding Communities Sharing and Caring, a local non-profit group, is hosting a Christmas Food Drive at the Real Canadian Superstore in preparation for the distribution of Christmas Hampers.

Volunteers at the Real Canadian Superstore food drive. Photo by Angela O’Grady.

Members from Help Alliance Americas and Lufthansa Group will be at the Real Canadian Superstore daily from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. until Saturday.

Peterborough Sharing and Caring took root in November 2020, to offer support to families and individuals during the holidays in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last Christmas the group put together and distributed 82 hampers to those that needed them.

Since their start, they have been striving to grow to be able to help more people.

“Right now there are people who don’t have a job, people that can’t go out places due to COVID-19, people that just don’t have the money to get what they need for Christmas,” said Brad Hayes, Lufthansa Group.

The non profit recently distributed Thanksgiving Hampers and are now gearing up to put together hampers for Christmas.

This year their most needed items for their holiday hampers are stuffing, canned vegetables, cookies and snacks.

They are also accepting gift items help families and individuals that may not receive anything.

With money gathered from bottle drives, the group has purchased a large supply of Crayola products to include in Christmas Hampers, says Sandra Whitmore, founder of Peterborough Sharing and Caring.

“We will be doing another bottle drive in November around the Deer hunt,” she said.

To request a Christmas Hamper, email Whitmore at sammybou1966@gmail.com. To keep updated on fundraisers and food drives, join the Peterborough Caring and Sharing Facebook group.

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