Holiday Assistance Campaign

The 2024 ACS Holiday Assistance Program numbers are starting to come in and we are so thankful for the incredible generosity of our community.

During the holiday season, ACS was able to provide 145 families with Holiday Hampers, complete 34 individual Food Bank visits, and deliver 110 Santa to a Senior care packages to local seniors.

Through the Holiday Assistance Program, we proudly:

• distributed 145 hampers, a 13% increase over last year
• served 690 individuals, a 44% increase over last year
• served 336 children, a 40% increase over last year
• distributed 18,017 lbs of food, a 33% increase over last year
• completed 34 individual Food Bank visits, new for 2024

Each hamper contained non-perishable food items, a frozen turkey roll, fresh eggs, carrots, potatoes, onions, grocery store gift cards, toys and gift cards for children (up to age 18) along with essential household products like laundry soap, toiletries, and toilet paper.

We could not have accomplished this task without the support of our amazing community. Your generosity helped ensure that income-challenged families, seniors, and individuals felt the care and compassion of our Ancaster community.

Thank you to everyone who donated non-perishable and fresh food, personal hygiene products, toys, gifts, or made a monetary contribution! Thank you to the local schools, businesses, churches, organizations, and families that ran food drives, toy drives, or collected donations on our behalf. 

We also want to express how grateful we are for our amazing volunteers who helped us collect and sort donations, assemble hampers, deliver hampers to families, and so much more. None of this work would be possible without your dedication to giving back to your community.