Help Stamp Out Hunger! on May 10th
I’ve teamed up with M80 and Campbell’s Soup to help spread the word about the nation’s largest single-day food drive, called Stamp Out Hunger!. Both the Campbell’s Soup Company and the Harlem Globetrotters are working hard to spread the word about this important event, which has collected more than 836 million pounds of food since it began in 1993. Watch this:
And here’s some important information:
• The Stamp Out Hunger! drive is a nationwide effort to provide food to local food banks and pantries, which would otherwise have depleted stocks during the summer months, to help feed the hungry on a daily basis.
• The nation’s 230,000 letter carriers will be collecting food donations in more than 10,000 local communities and delivering them to food bank members of America ’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network and other hunger relief organizations.
• Last year the letter carriers collected more than 70 million pounds of food from generous Americans, bringing their impressive total to more than 836 million pounds since 1993.
• Campbell Soup Company is supporting this important initiative by kicking off the food drive with a national donation of one million pounds of soup and other food and beverage items that will be donated to food banks across the country.
The Face of Hunger…
• According to the America ’s Second Harvest, 35 million Americans are food insecure, hungry or at risk of hunger. Approximately one in four people in a soup kitchen line is a child.
You Can Help…
• Helping Stamp Out Hunger! is as easy as checking your mailbox. Just leave a bag of non-perishable food where your letter carrier normally delivers your mail. Your letter carrier will then pick up and deliver the food to a local food bank. Examples of non-perishable items include:
• Canned soup
• Canned meats and fish
• Canned juices
• Canned vegetables and fruits
• Boxed goods (such as cereal)
• Pasta and rice
• To find out more about the annual Stamp Out Hunger! effort in your community, ask your letter carrier, contact your local post office or visit www.helpstampouthunger.com.
Please mark your calendars for this important event. I know money is tight, but items from discount grocers like Aldi are not expensive and can make such a difference. Many of us go grocery shopping every week even though there is food in our pantry-imagine if there wasn’t. I’ll be continuing to post on this topic up until the 10th, and I’ll also be giving away some pennants signed by the Harlem Globetrotters as well as calendars featuring images of the Globetrotters and other images from previous Stamp Out Hunger! events, so watch for that coming up. No one in this country should ever have to be hungry, there’s plenty of food to go around if we can just get it to the people who need it!
