For its 16th consecutive year, on Dec. 11-12 the Allen Lund Company (ALC) participated in a volunteer event with Navidad en el Barrio, joining for the fifth year with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and for a third year with Catholic Charities of Los Angeles. Each event celebrated the holidays and supported the underserved communities of Southern California. ALC employees secured dry goods and perishables donated from customers then coordinated the transportation to move the donations to the warehouse. All donated products were arranged in bags making a bountiful Christmas dinner for families.

“I am amazed that 16 years have gone by and that even in the midst of a pandemic Allen Lund Company, working with Navidad en el Barrio, was able to secure enough products and produce to provide two full bags of items for a healthy Christmas dinner,” said Nora Trueblood, MarCom director for ALC. “Each year our customers donate produce and dry commodities and in the end, we delivered 10,000 Christmas dinner items to families throughout Southern California. Allen Lund Company also provided volunteers at the Navidad en el Barrio warehouse as well as to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and at Catholic Charities. Each location distributed to 300 families.”

This event is the combination of great truck drivers that ALC coordinates to pick up the donations and generous companies of all sizes that participate and, over the course of the 16 years, over 250,000 families or 1,000,000 people have received a Christmas dinner via Navidad en el Barrio.

Donors this year included: Bolthouse Farms, Cacique, Coca-Cola, Faribault Foods, First Fruits, Grimmway Farms, Mission Produce, Sage Fruit, Santa Fe Tortilla Company, Taylor Farms, Wada Farms and Wonderful Citrus.