PHOTOS: Local nonprofits team up to deliver over 1,000 Thanksgiving meals

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Hosea Helps partnered with local nonprofits to prepare and deliver meals to people around Atlanta.

Volunteer Nigel Upshaw helped organize the 1200 hot meals Hosea Helps delivered to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Actor Afemo Omilami says a prayer over the Thanksgiving day meals delivered to the James Allen Jr Place Apartments in Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. Through a vast volunteer network, Hosea Helps prepared and delivered 1200 hot meals Thursday to people around Atlanta. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Chef Tim Morgan (Left) says a prayer before the 1200 hot meals he helped to prepare with Hosea Helps is delivered to people around Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Volunteers assemble the hot meals Hosea Helps delivers to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Volunteers register before assembling the hot meals Hosea Helps delivers to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Elisabeth Omilami talks with the volunteers before they start loading onto a truck the 1200 hot meals Hosea Helps deliver to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Dexter Samples loads boxes of Thanksgiving day meals onto a truck that will be delivered to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Beborah Scoot (Center) loads trays of food into boxes that will be loaded onto a truck and delivered to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Volunteers make up a Thanksgiving day meal for residents at the James Allen, Jr. Place apartments Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Volunteers work through the night preparing the 1200 hot meals Hosea Helps will deliver to people around Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

Volunteers make up a Thanksgiving day meal for residents at the James Allen, Jr. Place apartments on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

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Volunteer Nigel Upshaw helped organize the 1200 hot meals Hosea Helps delivered to people around Atlanta on Thursday, November 23, 2023. (Steve Schaefer/steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

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