Volunteers pack 1,600 'Boxes of Love' with holiday meals for Louisville area families

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Volunteers lined-up in downtown Louisville to help pack "Boxes of Love" to be distributed for Christmas.

The Metro United Way orchestrated the effort at Fourth Street Live! to provide more than 1,600 holiday meals to feed families in Louisville and southern Indiana.

The initiative brought volunteers from unions, community groups and local businesses to pack boxes with hams and holiday sides. The boxes are delivered to homes across the region.

The Boxes of Love program has provided more than 19,000 holiday meals for more than 80,000 people, since it was launched.

Metro United Way's Hardship to Hope support the program to serve more than 260,000 people in its seven-county region by 2030. For information, click here.

The Metro United Way serves Jefferson, Bullitt, Oldham, and Shelby counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.

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