Thanks to the support of a generous grocery store chain and some caring community members, 500 Camden County residents will be treated to a warm start to this year.
The Ravitz Family Foundation and Supermarkets of Cherry Hill, Inc., which owns and operates five area ShopRite grocery stores in Cherry Hill, Marlton and Mt. Laurel, along with the stores’ loyal customer base, collected 500 new and gently-used coats as part of the foundation’s fifth annual coat drive.
The coats were delivered to Campbell Field, where the Riversharks provided space for youth from The Work Group, a partner of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey in Camden County that helps to provide young people who have dropped out of school with an opportunity obtain their GEDs and work-readiness and career-development training, helped to sort the donations and prepare them to be distributed to local Camden County families.
