St. Emydius turkey drive provides healthy meals for the needy

Nov. 27, 2019

Catholic San Francisco

The pre-Christmas phase of the eighth annual SF Turkey Drive at St. Emydius Church in the Ingleside District of San Francisco will be held Dec. 21 from 9 a.m. till noon in the parking lot across from the church at 350 De Montfort Ave. (Jules), a block south of the Target store on Ocean Avenue.

What to bring: Turkeys (frozen preferred), hams and boxes of fresh vegetables. All donations will be brought to the St. Anthony Foundation right after the collection. Online donations may be made at www.SFTurkeyDrive.com. 

The turkey drive is part of an effort by neighborhoods in the southern part of San Francisco to make a difference in fighting hunger among the homeless and poor in the city.

“This neighborhood drive has become important for the food supply of St. Anthony,” said Pierre Smit, who started the effort out of his home in 2012.

“In the past two years alone, we have helped in serving over 45,000 meals.
“The cost of living keeps increasing; housing costs keeps going up; and homelessness is growing by 17% last year alone; over 10% of the our residents are living below the poverty level,” he said. “All these facts mean the need for food at St. Anthony is very important to keep up with feeding older residents, poor families, lonely veterans, down-on-their luck folks, homeless and many others.”

For more information, contact Pierre Smit at sfpierre@aol.com.