CAMBA's Beyond Hunger Emergency Food Pantry

CAMBA's Flatbush food pantry opened its doors in 1996 to serve people in the community who need help putting food on their tables. Today, the pantry serves 4,000 people every month, providing emergency food and much-needed support: assistance with public benefit screening and applications, nutrition education, recipe demonstrations and access to community resources. 

The pantry's clients include families, the elderly and other individuals simply struggling to get by.

Why 500 Turkeys for 500 Families?

Throughout the year, hungry people line up outside the pantry's doors on Church Avenue looking for the food they need to live. But come November, they hope for a little more -- for their children to be able to take part in the season's bounty. Parents ask: "Do you have turkeys? Do you have meat or anything we can use on our table for the holidays?"

For two years now, "500 Turkeys for 500 Families" has been a huge success. For six weeks each fall, support floods in from our community (from people like you and your neighbors). And on Thanksgiving week, when the line for turkeys stretches down Church Avenue, no one leaves without a Thanksgiving meal in hand.

So this year, Ditmas Park Corner is asking again for your help -- to bring Thanksgiving dinners to 500 families in our community. 

For $25, you can buy a turkey and all the trimmings for a family of six. For $50, you'll bring that to two families. For $100, four families will have the traditional holiday meal that we expect, and enjoy, every year. And for $250, you can fill a "Community Table," bringing Thanksgiving to 10 families. 

This year, to show our appreciation, "Community Table" donors will be invited to tour CAMBA's pantry, to see first-hand how it works and get a close-up look at the pantry's onsite hydroponic farm.

As in years past, 500 turkeys will start to meet the pantry's need. Help us get there again: Buy a dinner, two, even four or 10. You'll enjoy the feeling ,.. almost as much as the families enjoy the meals.

A pantry client takes home her Thanksgiving turkey

Pantry volunteers prep hydroponically-grown produce for
a cooking demo with clients 

A pantry client takes home lettuce from the farm's first harvest

Who We Are

Ditmas Park Corner is a news website for and about Ditmas Park/Flatbush, Brooklyn. As part of Corner Media Group, Ditmas Park Corner is one of several high quality, hyper-local sites in the Brooklyn communities its writers and editors live in, love and serve. Visit the site at ditmasparkcorner.com.

CAMBA was started in 1977 and, today, helps 45,000 people around New York City transform their lives each year. Our services include economic development, education & youth development, family support, health, housing and legal services. Learn more at camba.org.

By contributing to this campaign, your contact information will be shared with Ditmas Park Corner and CAMBA.