The Nile Swim Club in Yeadon Has embarked on an ambitious campaign to distribute food packages every Friday through December to up to 1,000 families, writes Afea Tucker for The Philadelphia Tribune.

The proactive swim club is working with Blessings of Hope food pantry.

“I got a phone call from an agency that normally receives food in Philadelphia and they asked if we can take the food out to Delaware County,” said Anthony Patterson, president of the swim club at 513 S. Union Ave.

“I told them that I would be glad to do so and we started out with taking maybe a couple of hundred boxes and distributing them.”

They’ve been doing the food deliveries for three months.

Patterson said there’s a great need in the Yeadon community for the deliveries, between unemployment and the pandemic.

“The Nile Swim Club has been such an integral part of our community and this is just another extension of it,” said Patterson. “It is tough out here right now.”

The Nile Swim Club is the first African-American-owned swim club in the country, and the oldest, founded in 1959.

Read more about the Nile Swim Club and its work in the community at The Philadelphia Tribune.

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