The McCarter Theatre Center is working to raise money and awareness for Mercer Street Friends Food Bank during their production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, running Dec. 9 to Dec. 31.
Before each performance of A Christmas Carol, McCarter will encourage patrons to participate in Mercer Street Friends Food Bank’s Send Hunger Packing program. Send Hunger Packing engages with 21 local schools to provide hundreds of children nutritious kid-friendly food packs to take home on Friday afternoons during the school year. The food packs ensure that the children have meals to eat over the weekend and return to school nourished and ready to learn.
At McCarter, visitors can fill out a holiday card for children enrolled in the Send Hunger Packing program, offering messages of love and good cheer for the holidays.
McCarter is also conducting post-show fundraising efforts, the proceeds of which will pass directly to Mercer Street Friends Food Bank to support all organizational initiatives. McCarter annual Community Assistance Program has raised more than $275,000 since 2009, benefiting numerous Mercer County support service organizations and non-profits.
“We are touched to have had McCarter Theatre Center as such a great supporter of the Food Bank throughout the years, and are thrilled to work together to support Send Hunger Packing as well as many other much-needed programs,” Brian Peterson, community resource liaison for the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, said. “I thank both McCarter and its patrons for their support in our work to alleviate hunger in the community.”
Liam McKernan and Greg Wood in McCarter’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Photo by T. Charles Erickson),
