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Convoy of Hope Festival
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  • June 6
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Local Businesses, Churches, and Community Agencies Unite to Bring Food and Hope to As Many As 10,000 Children and Adults in Baltimore.

 

WHO:         Area businesses, churches, and community agencies in Baltimore

                        Convoy of Hope, based in Springfield, Missouri, and area businesses, churches, and community agencies have donated time and resources to host this community outreach. This all-volunteer outreach includes approximately 1,000 volunteers who will be on hand to help unload the Convoy of Hope truck, distribute food, and facilitate all outreach programs.

 

WHAT:        COMMUNITY OUTREACH, “CONVOY OF HOPE.”  Free festival-like event that includes distribution of 80,000 pounds of food to provide meals that will feed thousands of people throughout the Baltimore area. Event activities include free grocery distribution, free lunch for everyone, live entertainment, children’s carnival area, medical and dental services, job fair, community services fair, free haircuts, and more. The activities will continue, rain or shine, until all the food has been distributed. No identification is needed.

 

WHERE:     Clifton Park at the corner of St Lo Drive and Harford Rd
Baltimore, Maryland

 

WHEN:       Saturday, June 6th
10AM                                              Site Opens
10AM                                              First Grocery Distribution Begins

WHY:          Convoy of Hope local outreaches are united acts of compassion designed to meet the basic physical and spiritual needs of community residents. Convoy of Hope is a nonprofit organization that provides resources to organizations and churches to meet those needs for the purpose of making the community a better place.

                                                                       

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