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For however long Bronx residents need food, CC and Amber Sabathia will continue their once-a-week distribution in the borough and their California hometown of Vallejo with the goal of supporting the Boys & Girls Clubs during the coronavirus pandemic. “When it first happened we really thought about the Boys & Girls Clubs and the parents. …
For however long Bronx residents need food, CC and Amber Sabathia will continue their once-a-week distribution in the borough and their California hometown of Vallejo with the goal of supporting the Boys & Girls Clubs during the coronavirus pandemic.
“When it first happened we really thought about the Boys & Girls Clubs and the parents. Obviously, I was one of those kids so if this was 30-something years ago I would be standing on line waiting for a box,’’ Sabathia, who retired after last season, told The Post on Friday, a day after his family’s PitCCh In Foundation distributed boxes of non-perishable food to Boys & Girls Club members in The Bronx. “It is something we really wanted to do to help out the community. I love The Bronx, that is where I made my second home. Hopefully we can keep it going as long as this is going on.’’
The Sabathias are working with FreshDirect in partnership with all five borough presidents and have helped launch “Operation 5 Borough Food Drive’’
With Vallejo involved, it’s a bicoastal operation. The Sabathia’s foundation provided by and the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano distributed 500 emergency food boxes and bags of fresh produce to local families on Tuesday and Friday.
“Many are facing extraordinary challenges, including those posed by school closures which remove crucial meals for local children. It is a priority to give back to our home,’’ Amber and CC Sabathia said in a statement.
Wearing gloves and face masks, Sabathia handed out boxes of food in The Bronx.
“Vegetables were in there, stuff that is hard to get in a supermarket. Whatever people need,’’ Sabathia said of the boxes’ content. “We don’t get to pick what is in the box.’’
Sabathia’s foundation gets the boxes from FreshDirect and takes them to the streets.
Like so many around the globe, Sabathia has been confined to his home in North Jersey.
“We are all safe. We are staying in the house,’’ Sabathia said. “Trying to stay safe, do what we can.’’
Amber Sabathia said, “We have literally been out of the house three times since March 12 and it has been to The Bronx and that is it. So we are definitely sticking with the stay home [directive].’’
With his mother in California, CC Sabathia is in touch with her daily.
“I talk to her every day, she is good. My aunt is doing good,’’ Sabathia said.
