AT&T helps provide food baskets

AT&T said Tuesday that it has given the Great Plains Food Bank, a program of Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, a $5,000 AT&T Cares contribution to build holiday food baskets for families in need in communities. AT&T volunteers worked with the Great Plains Food Bank and local officials to assemble the food baskets Tuesday at the Great Plains Food Bank in Fargo. The project will provide approximately 400 dinners for families this holiday season.

The “AT&T Bountiful Baskets” program will provide a traditional holiday feast for local families. Volunteers from the AT&T Mobility stores along with local officials and employees from the Great Plains Food Bank built the baskets and will make them available to local families.

The baskets being assembled Tuesday will be delivered as part of the Great Plains Food Bank’s Mobile Food Pantry Program to families in communities across North Dakota who lack access to a traditional food pantry. Great Plains Food Bank trucks will be loaded to deliver food baskets to an estimated 400 households to help feed children, seniors and families in need. The communities include Bisbee, Carrington, Devils Lake, Dunseith, New Rockford and Sheyenne.

Support for the Bountiful Baskets program is part of AT&T Cares, the company’s employee volunteer initiative, created to encourage employees to get engaged in community service that is meaningful to them and their communities.

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