Help stamp out hunger! It’s easy. Simply place a bag of nonperishable food donations by your mailbox on the morning of Saturday, May 11, for the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)
This is the one day of the year that all Americans have the opportunity – with the help of letter carriers – to easily donate food to help needy families in their community. The “Stamp Out Hunger” effort is the largest single-day food drive in the world. The NALC food drive has collected more than one-billion pounds of food nationally since the food drive’s inception in 1993.
The letter carriers food drive benefits the entire Oregon Food Bank Network, serving people who are hungry in every county in
“The Letter Carrier’s Food Drive is one of the biggest food drives of the year, and helps keep our shelves stocked through the summer and early fall” –Sandy Klein, Food Resource Specialist, NeighborImpact. “The number of people accessing emergency food in
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How to help:
- Look for a yellow, plastic, degradable food drive bag in your mail during the first week of May.
- Fill the bag (or any sturdy bag) with nutritious, nonperishable food. NeighborImpact will recycle your bag.
- Place it by your mailbox early on Saturday, May 11.
All donated food stays in the community where it was collected.
Most-wanted nonperishable foods include
Look for foods high in nutrition and low in sugar and fat, such as:
- peanut butter (highly desirable)
- canned meats (tuna, chicken, salmon),
- canned and boxed meals (soup, chili, stew, macaroni and cheese),
- canned or dried beans and peas (black, pinto, lentils),
- pasta, rice cereal,
- canned fruits, 100 percent fruit juice (canned, plastic or boxed),
- canned vegetables,
- cooking oil, boxed baking mixes.
Please NO
- Rusty or unlabeled cans, glass containers, perishable items, homemade items, noncommercial canned or packaged items, alcoholic beverages, mixes or soda, open or used items.
