Mobile, AL (WKRG)
There’s a new way to give to people in need this Holiday Season. Volunteers in one of Baldwin County’s most affluent communities are putting out small reminders of charity this year. I followed volunteers as they walked through downtown Fairhope. They were dropping off decorative jars touting the One Town, One Family, One Day program. The jars promote a program asking shoppers to donate just five dollars to the Prodisee Pantry on top of their purchases to help feed a Baldwin County family.
“Surely us being aware of what happens in our community knowing we do have the ability to make a difference,” said Lisette Norman the owner of the Fairhope Store. She is coordinating with local businesses to participate in the program. The Prodisee Pantry is a Baldwin County-based food bank that had its big Thanksgiving food distribution this past week. They say 10% of the families they help live in Fairhope–where hunger can sometimes be invisible.
“It’s a pride thing, a lot of folks don’t want to let their neighbors know they’re struggling and in reality their neighbors do want to help and it doesn’t take much to help,” said the Executive Director of the Prodisee Pantry Deann Servos. As the jars spread around town business owners say the response has been good.
“When you have people that are willing to put the work behind it and put it in their face and say here it is right here, here’s your opportunity to reach in your pocket make a small contribution, we all like to give and to me giving is a muscle that needs to be exercised and needs to be worked,” said Pete Blohme with Panini Pete’s. For more information head to One Town’s Facebook page.
