WESTBROOK, Maine — As a way of paying tribute to the victims of 9/11 Maine credit unions joined forces to collect funds for five local food pantries and the Emergency Food Relief Fund.
A total of $7,055 was donated to the charitable organizations during the fifth annual event dubbed "People Remembering and Helping People".
Since 2001, through the Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger, Maine's credit unions have contributed over $21,000 to the Emergency Food Relief Funds of Maine's Red Cross Chapters in memory of 9/11. This was the first year that a Maine food pantry located in each of the Chapter regions was also included in this special ceremony.
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The five Red Cross Chapters in Maine that received donations are the: Pine Tree Chapter, Pine Tree-Aroostook Chapter, Mid-Coast Chapter, Southern Maine Chapter, and United Valley Chapter.
The five food pantries that received donations include Preble Street Resource Center of Portland, Mid-Coast Hunger Prevention Food Pantry of Brunswick, MANNA Ministries of Bangor, Sisters of Charity Food Pantry of Lewiston, and Aroostook Home Supplies & Food Bank of Caribou. "For people throughout Maine, emergencies happen everyday and, while not on the magnitude of 9/11 attacks, they are no less traumatic for the people involved. The ability to provide food in emergencies is an essential function and this event is our opportunity to not only remember all of the courageous acts that emergency personnel and volunteers did on and after 9/11 but to also acknowledge the need to help locally, too," said Maine CUL Governmental/Public Affairs Manager Jon Paradise.
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