Allen Lund Co. again works with Los Angeles charities
‘Tis the season for the Allen Lund Co.
As is their tradition, the company participated several volunteer events in Los Angeles in December, according to a news release.
The company’s employees volunteered for the 16th straight year with Navidad en el Barrio, according to a news release.
The Navidad en el Barrio was established in 1972 with the mission of providing Christmas dinners to thousands of families in Southern California every year.
In mid-December, the company’s employees also participated for the fifth-year with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and for a third-year with Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, the release said.
“I am amazed that 16 years have gone by and that even in the midst of a pandemic, Allen Lund Company working with Navidad en el Barrio were able to secure enough products and produce to provide two full bags of items for a healthy Christmas dinner,” Nora Trueblood, marketing and communication director for ALC, said in the release.
“Each year our customers donate produce and dry commodities and in the end, we delivered 10,000 Christmas dinner items to families throughout Southern California,” she said in the release. “Allen Lund Company also provided volunteers at the Navidad en el Barrio warehouse, as well as at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and at Catholic Charities. Each location distributed to 300 families.”
The event, according to the release, is a combination of great truck drivers that ALC coordinates to pick up the donations and generous companies of all sizes that participate. Over the course of the 16 years, over 250,000 families or 1,000,000 people have received a Christmas dinner via Navidad en el Barrio.
Allen Lund Company thanked donors for their contributions to the outreach. Those companies were:
- Bolthouse Farms;
- Cacique;
- Coca-Cola;
- Faribault Foods;
- First Fruits;
- Grimmway Farms;
- Mission Produce;
- Sage Fruit;
- Santa Fe Tortilla Company;
- Taylor Farms;
- Wada Farms; and
- Wonderful Citrus.
