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WASHINGTON – A D.C.-based nonprofit is giving thanks and giving back this holiday season.  

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At Food & Friends in Northeast, it’s actually an annual tradition to help curb food insecurity in the DMV during Thanksgiving. 

It’s a more than 30-year tradition at Food & Friends as 4,500 Thanksgiving meals will be delivered to nearly 900 families across the D.C. region.

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Many of those families include people who are facing diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other life-challenging illnesses.

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Now, on Thanksgiving Day, volunteers and staff with the nonprofit gather before the sun even comes up to prepare meal bags for 200 volunteer drivers.

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Each Thanksgiving delivery will feed five people. One of those families is Linda Battle a retired federal worker who was a part of the paint crews who worked on government buildings.

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“Food & Friends has been very good to me, and I hope everybody else can enjoy it as much as I can,” Battle told FOX 5 on Thanksgiving morning. 

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You can also help by donating your time or money at foodandfriends.org.

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