Nov 26, 2009 7:06 pm US/Eastern
Thanksgiving Day Cooking Helps Turn Lives Around
Ex-Inmates And Ex-Homeless Prepare Over 1,000 Meals In Brooklyn Kitchen
Reporting
Jay Dow
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Long before dawn on Thanksgiving morning, a dozen men, all members of the Doe Fund Culinary Arts training program, were hard at work preparing holiday meals for the less fortunate in their Brooklyn kitchen.
The men all have stories to tell, of trials and tribulations that nearly broke them both physically and emotionally.
"The beginning of my journey was shelters, drug abuse, and just disarray. I was lost," said Marshall Roberts.
Now Roberts is on the fast track to a formal reintroduction to his family and the community.
"For Thanksgiving we're going to serve roast turkey, baked ham, cornbread stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes," said Doe Fund Food Coordinator Gino D'Alessandro, who oversees the entire operation.
His team, and not just today but everyday, prepares 1,200 meals for their fellow Doe Fund clients.
"This is not a handout. It's a hand up. It's work," D'Alessandro said. "A second chance is a great thing, and they all realize the chance they have here, and they take advantage of it.
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