The Second Annual Helping Hands Food Pantry 5K Fun Run will take place on Saturday, 11/20 @ 11:00 a.m.  in Prospect Park. The run begins at the Bartel-Pritchard  15th Street & Prospect Park West entrance of Prospect Park at 11:00.   Participants are invited to walk, bike or run.  All proceeds go to Helping Hands Food Pantry, which operates out of St. Augustine Church in Park Slope.

Helping Hands, which has been in existence since 1992, distributes emergency food supplies to approximately 600 needy residents (men, women and children) in Prospect Heights, Park Slope and Fort Greene Brooklyn each month. All staff work on a volunteer basis. Brooklyn Jubilee, a legal advocacy ministry, which began at Park Slope Presbyterian Church and operates in several Brooklyn locations, works in conjunction with Helping Hands twice monthly to offer free legal advice relating to housing, health insurance, and food stamps