Beginning in mid-October until shortly before Thanksgiving, the Merciful HELP Center collects Thanksgiving-type foods, staples, laundry detergent, and personal hygiene items to create food baskets for approximately 500 families from Hamilton County in Indiana.

Thanksgiving dinner items include all the 'fixings' necessary to bring a family together for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, right down to the stuffing! Frozen turkey, hamburger, fresh potatoes, carrots, cheese, fruit, celery, milk, butter, eggs, fresh bread, and other produce are purchased, as well as any foods that are not donated. The box also includes pantry staples to make at least 10 other meals, like a meal of spaghetti and meatballs, tuna and noodles, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken and rice, cereal, oatmeal, French toast, pancakes and desserts! We also include items that are not covered by food stamps, such as toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, dishwashing detergent, cleaners, soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, vitamins and more!

If you apply through the Merciful HELP Center, this DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU THAT YOU WILL BE ASSIGNED TO Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the Merciful HELP Center! If you would like our food basket, you must write that on your application that is submitted to the Good Samaritan Network. 

Apply at the Good Samaritan Network at https://gsn.formstack.com/forms/holiday_assistance_registration_2024_online_copy