CSA News You Can Use: Annual Letter Carriers 'Stamp Out Hunger' Food Drive Set for May 11
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Your letter carrier’s load will be a lot
heavier this Saturday but they won’t mind.
Letter carriers will pick up your donations of
non-perishable food on May 11 as part of the
21st annual "Stamp
Out Hunger" Food Drive, the largest annual
food collection day in the United States. In
2012, the drive, sponsored by the Letter
Carriers (NALC), collected more than 70 million
pounds of food and it has collected nearly 1.2
billion pounds of food since it began in 1993.
“In America today, millions go to bed
hungry,” says NALC 3825 president Ken Lerch.
“It warms our hearts to know that we will be
helping so many.” Donations are given
directly to local food pantries and, in 2012,
some 30 million people were served. While most
food pantries get the bulk of their donations
around Christmas and Thanksgiving, the NALC
drive is done during the spring, when many food
pantries are struggling.