Tyler Perry Donates 5K Meals to Atlanta Families at Thanksgiving Event

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Tyler Perry is giving back ahead of Thanksgiving. 🧡

The meals were handed out at a drive-thru event held at Tyler Perry Studios. In addition to maintaining distance through cars, the event enforced other COVID-19 precautions, including having those that were handing out food wear protective gear, WSB reports.

The local channel additionally noted that people slept in their cars to get one of the canned vegetable-filled boxes and a grocery store gift card. 1,000 Atlanta residents $50 gift cards to Kroger to help out amid the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, Perry opted to turn his Atlanta studio into a quarantine bubble back in June, a decision that allowed many people to keep working, despite the pandemic.

"I realized that I had several hundred employees. Some of them are former prisoners who were in prison for 10 and 20 years, and they’re just great people who are so grateful to have this second-chance opportunity," he recently told"So I found myself in a position of, 'OK, what are you going to do?fortunate enough to go sit and wait this thing out for a vaccine for a year and a half. But what about them? What about their kids?'" he added.

 

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