Levittown, NY – February 14, 2018 – Hempstead-based human service agency EAC Network was recently joined by Senator Kemp Hannon and AARP volunteers to pick up hundreds of bags of breakfast food collected from a week-long drive by students and families from the entire Island Trees School District.
Led by Island Trees PTSA Co-President and EAC Network RD/Health Educator Laura Zelenka-Dufresne, RDN, students from Island Trees High School, Island Trees Memorial Middle School, Michael F. Stokes Elementary, and J. Fred Sparke Elementary collected nutritious, non-perishable items for EAC Network’s Nutrition Education & Food Services food pantry. The food is being used to supplement breakfast meals for vulnerable Nassau County residents, people living with HIV/AIDS, and frail homebound seniors. It will help stock the pantry for months.
“This is the 6th year that the Island Trees School District has supported EAC Network’s food pantry,” said Zelenka-Dufrense. “The district first began its involvement with one elementary school and over the years has expanded its annual breakfast food drive to operate throughout the entire district, from elementary to high school, sending out over 2,300 brown bags to be filled by families. We are so proud to be able to continue to support and feed EAC Network’s vulnerable clients, who truly need our help.”
For more information on EAC Network’s Nutrition Education & Food Services program, visit www.eac-network.org/nutrition-education-food-services or call (516) 539-0150 x110.
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About EAC Network
EAC Network is a diverse not-for-profit human service agency that empowers, assists, and cares for over 82,000 children, families, and seniors in crisis across Long Island and New York City. Among those we help are children who have been abused or who are in foster care, people struggling with addiction or mental illness, vulnerable seniors, individuals seeking gainful employment, and more. For more information, visit us at www.eac-network.org, call (516) 539-0150, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @EACNet.
Contact
Alena Jones │ Director of Development & Marketing │ (516) 539-0150 x117 │ alena.jones@eac-network.org
