This article originally appeared on the Forest Hills Patch and was authored by Maya Kaufman and Patch Staff.

Volunteers delivered Passover care packages full of everything from matzoh to macaroons to Jewish residents stuck at home amid the pandemic.

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Volunteers are delivering Passover care packages full of everything from matzoh ball soup mix to macaroons to Jewish residents in the Forest Hills-Rego Park area who are stuck at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Queens Jewish Community Council, Masbia of Queens, Met Council, Project Lead in Kew Gardens, Ohr Natan and Commonpoint Queens are among the organizations that have distributed food to locals who are keeping kosher for Passover starting Wednesday evening.

While their efforts are not new, volunteers say the act of delivering Passover care packages has taken on heightened significance during a crisis that has kept New Yorkers indoors and limited their access to food.

“It’s very scary this year,” David Aronov, a Queens Jewish Community Council board member, told Patch. “It’s a different kind of need. These are people who typically could go to the store for any holiday in any other year.”

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The Queens Jewish Community Council partnered with the Rego Park Senior’s Club to pack bags of Passover food for Jewish community members in Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens and Briarwood. Volunteers donned masks and gloves while making their deliveries to protect themselves and others from the new coronavirus.

“This year, because of social distancing, we had to figure out a new way of doing it,” Manashe Khaimov, founding director of the Bukharian Jewish Union and a Queens Jewish Community Council board member, told Patch.

This is Khaimov’s eighth year doing this kind of food distribution, and he said recipients are especially appreciative this year: “The impact is much, much, much greater, because you’re helping them to not go outside and get sick.”

Supplementing these hyperlocal, grassroots efforts is the Met Council for Jewish Poverty, which has delivered hundreds of thousands of packages of kosher-for-Passover food to an estimated 201,000 people in the New York City area, according to the Forward.

And Commonpoint Queens, formerly known as the Samuel Field Y and Central Queens Y, has delivered more than 3,750 Passover meals to seniors and homebound individuals across the borough amid the coronavirus crisis.

“While Passover is the Holiday of Freedom, we are confined to our homes and separated from our communities,” Commonpoint Queens CEO Danielle Ellman said. “At Commonpoint we are committed to redefining how we think about community and finding new ways to connect and meet the needs of our neighbors in this new unchartered time.”