The holidays are a little brighter for many families in need thanks to the Hosea Helps Christmas Drive Thru.
Vehicles started lining up in Southwest Atlanta for the annual food drive at about 3:45 a.m. on Saturday.
The nonprofit organization Hosea Helps worked to make sure everyone has what they need for a special holiday meal, distributing boxes of food for those who waited in line.
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“It’s going to include a whole turkey that comes from Georgia partners like Kroger and Publix. It’s going to include a food box, a case of water,” Hosea Helps CEO Awodele Omilami told Channel 2′s Brittany Kleinpeter .
The packages contained what so many in line had hoped to unwrap this holiday.
“I only get $23 in food stamps,” Susan Good said. “If it wasn’t for Hosea Helps, I wouldn’t eat.”
Omilami said, unfortunately, Good’s story is not unlike many others.
“We’re seeing a lot of middle-class families where they’re experiencing what we call a sudden loss of income,” Omilami said. “When those two income households become single income households within three months they’re in danger of homelessness.”