Monday afternoon, Riseboro Community Partnership is giving away food baskets for families in need and holiday gifts for the community’s children. The event, which will take place at the Riseboro Youth Center at 1474 Gates Ave. in Brooklyn on Dec. 21 from 3pm to 7pm, is a scaled back version of the annual holiday party the community service driven organization has been throwing annually for more than 30 years.

Riseboro’s Vice President of Education, Elena Zullo, said even in spite of the COVID-19 Pandemic, they were determined to put on a holiday event, even if it had to be different from years past.

Instead of a bouncy castle and dance music, this year families will be invited, one at a time, into the Youth Center lobby, which Zullo said has been transformed into a winter wonderland. There children will receive a holiday gift and families can pick up their food basket. Families will also be invited to take photos in front of the Christmas tree.