Church provides 200 Deliveries in 2020 to celebrate 200th Anniversary

Food Donations Underway in New York to Commemorate Bicentennial of Restoration.
Two-hundred deliveries to food pantries and charities in the state of New York are being coordinated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first appearance of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in Palmyra, New York, to Joseph Smith, prophet and first president of the Church.
According to Abubakr Abdul-Latif, the director of operations for Barakah Muslim Charity in Rochester, with the pandemic still affecting upstate New Yorkers, the donated food is a needful gift.
“It’s huge, because you know that [with] COVID, people are losing their jobs and not having enough money and food to sustain them for a week. So this food here can possibly help them,” said Abdul-Latif.
“Through this kind of work, we find that our differences are not big, [and] our commonalities are much bigger,” said Alma Omerhodzic, the charity’s financial director.
Over the course of several weeks, additional truckloads of food will be delivered throughout New York state, in New York City, Syracuse, Albany and Buffalo and many other cities and rural communities. In all, there will be more than three dozen trucks each, carrying 45,000 pounds of food and culminating in the 200th delivery.