TAFB hosts huge Thanksgiving mobile food distribution event
ARLINGTON, Texas - The Tarrant Area Food Bank and other nonprofit organizations are teaming up on Friday to help families in need this Thanksgiving.
People were invited to AT&T Stadium in Arlington for a huge mobile food distribution event.
Volunteers were in Lot 4 from 8 a.m. to noon giving out food to those who need assistance this holiday season.
The holiday season can bring so much uncertainty for some families. Too often, they don't even know where their next meal will come from, and inflation has made food insecurities much worse.
The families FOX 4 spoke to said they were grateful.
Former TCU head football coach Gary Patterson was one of the volunteers with the nonprofit group The Big Good.
"It's unbelievable to see the lines here today. It's just unbelievable," he said. "To know you can make a difference, we're all blessed. We're all sometimes better than what we need to be and to make sure everybody has an opportunity for at least one day or one week to feel the same way everyone else does, especially on the Thanksgiving holiday. It means the world."
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The Good Year Cotton Bowl Classic and American Airlines donated $20,000 to support the mission Friday.
TAFB said it expected nearly 6,000 families to go home from the event with food for a Thanksgiving meal.
Over the past four years, nearly 20,000 families have been fed.
For more information, visit tafb.org.