Washington Post: D.C. nonprofit puts the ‘happy’ in Thanksgiving by feeding ill area residents

Karen Washington hugs Food & Friends volunteer Petie Bonbreast in
Capitol Heights, Md., on Nov. 27, 2014. (Kate Patterson/For The Washington Post)

By Robert Samuels November 27

Karen Washington could only call the delivery a blessing. Two volunteers with the nonprofit organization Food & Friends had knocked on the doors of her Capitol Heights home, carrying a bag packed with a full Thanksgiving dinner that could feed a half-dozen.

Washington thanked them. She hugged them. “Come in, come in!” she invited.

In the kitchen, Washington’s sons were cutting up peppers and chopping celery. They began unpacking the feast bestowed upon them: roasted turkey, sweet potatoes, cornbread stuffing, green beans, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce.

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(Source: Samuels, Robert (2014, November 27). D.C. nonprofit puts the 'happy' in Thanksgiving by feeding ill area residents. The Washington Post, pp. B, B2).