Posted March 24, 2021

Staff and volunteers with Nutritional Development Services (NDS) of the Philadelphia Archdiocese gave away free boxes of food for anyone in need on Saturday morning, March 20 at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center in center city Philadelphia, another in an ongoing campaign of food distribution. Archbishop Nelson Pérez also was on hand to bless the workers and speak with recipients. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

(Read more about the March 20 food distribution organized by Nutritional Development Services.)

  • Volunteers load boxes of fresh food and federally funded school meals into clients’ cars at a March 20 distribution next to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. The event was organized by archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services, which has hosted a number of regular giveaways throughout the pandemic, now entering its second year.

  • Archbishop Pérez speaks with a family picking a box of food.