Saturday, remember to leave jars of peanut butter, cans of tuna or boxes of pasta – any nonperishable food – by your mailbox for the National Association of Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive.
Donations will be delivered to the Food Bank of the Rockies, where hundreds of volunteers sort the food for distribution to food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters.
Summer can be difficult for parents who count on school breakfast and lunch programs, and approximately 37,000 area households benefited from the drive last summer.
Last year, the letter carriers’ food drive delivered 310,378 pounds to the food bank, which enabled it to provide 239,000 meals through member agencies.
Food Bank of the Rockies serves nearly 600 agencies in Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. The nonprofit organization provided 12.4 million meals to the needy through 900 hunger-relief programs in northern Colorado and Wyoming last year. Food Bank of the Rockies’ key programs are Fighting Hunger Feeding Hope, Denver’s Table and Children’s Nutrition Network.
– The Denver Post
