Millions of pounds of food are collected each year with a running grand total of more than 1.4 billion pounds of food collected since the drive began in 1992. The county’s rate of food insecurity is 13.3 percent, which equates to 13,800 of our residents who struggle with hunger, many of them children and seniors.
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Wiregrass residents can help by putting non-perishable food donations next to their mailbox on Saturday, May 14. Food stays in the community where it’s collected.
U.S. Postal Service employees and local sponsors of the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive are preparing for the nationwide food drive Saturday, May 14.
The Wilson County Community Help Center receives the food.
“What I want to recognize is how many people were fed”. “Many of us don’t know what it means to be hungry”.
Charles Warner | The Union Times The National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive will be held May 14. Postal workers will collect these food donations throughout the day as they deliver mail. “But how scary would it be to go home tonight knowing there’s no food”.
The Food Drive effort is the nation’s largest single-day drive.
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This year, the Stamp Out Hunger campaign is raising the stakes by partnering with Food Tank, Wholesome Wave, Amp Your Good, and the Institute for Responsible Nutrition to include a month-long online donation platform. “We’ve had rain the past two years and that puts a bit of a damper on things, but we’re hopeful that it’ll be warm and sunny and we can really have some fun and say thank you to the letter carriers”.
