Stock The Pantry Food Drive Begins
And while they are out of school, many of them will not be getting the nutrition they need.
'We know hunger has not gone down, the rate of hunger has gone up and so events like this are critical to our ability to serve these folks in need,' says Michael Ledger of Feeding The Gulf Coast.
Last week, our partners for Stock the Pantry picked up their red barrels to be able to collect donations of food—and that's where you come in. We're asking you to partner with us as well and donate food for Stock the Pantry and Feeding the Gulf Coast. The organization says your donations do make a difference.
'A program like this is going to make sure a child has food over the weekend and during the summer when those cafeterias are closed—the pantrys we work with, amazing partners we have all across our community, are going to have the food they need on their shelves when that family, that child comes in that needs the help–they're going to have the food they need.'
Ledger says Stock the Pantry is an important awareness tool as well. Many people may not know about the level of hunger some children are facing. Rebecca Mullins is keenly aware of it though—she's on the front lines at Murphy High School where she operates a food bank in the school to help kids on the weekends during the school year, and during the summer.
'What we do during the summertime is any of our teachers who are working summer school,' Mullins says. 'I collaborate with them so that they know where our food stockpile is located so that they can offer the children anything that they need from what we have in our pantry over the summer.'
We hope you'll help us Stock the Pantry–Just look for the red barrels at any of our partner locations.
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