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Right before Christmas – the time of the year when the people in need require our special attention – thieves have broken into an Orlando community food bank and stole thousands of dollars in cash.

According to today’s Orlando Sentinel:

Christmas will be a little less bright for some poor people in Orlando now that someone broke into a food bank and stole $7,000. The thieves pried the safe from a wall at Community Food and Outreach Center where it was bolted and stole the money. They cut off the power to the building so the alarm system would be disabled, the director said. This is the second time since early November that the center on Michigan Avenue has been burglarized. Last time, thieves took $3,800 in cash and checks from the safe.

When heartless thieves steal from those that provide to the people in need, particularly before a major holiday there can only be one response from all of us:

DONATE

Non-perishable food items are always welcome but cash solves many problems. The Community Food and Outreach Center provides food, crisis care, educational opportunities and job readiness programs to thousands of people who are in need in Central Florida.

Visit CommunityFoodOutreach.org

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