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A Can If You Can' Food Drive

October 8th

September 24, 2016
A Can If You Can'
Food Drive

Led by North Mecklenburg Girl Scouts, and
Benefits Loaves & Fishes

October 8th

 
Girl Scout Troops in Huntersville, Cornelius and Davidson will be heading out SaturdayOctober 8th to collect canned goods for Loaves & Fishes.  The girls are hoping neighbors will donate “A Can if You Can” to help feed the hungry in their communities. 

The troops will go door-to-door to collect non-perishable food items the morning of Saturday, October 8th.  Residents are also encouraged to drop off food donations at the Ada Jenkins Center, 212 Gamble Street in Davidson, between 9:00am and 2:30pm on October 8th where Girl Scouts will be on hand to collect food donations.

250 girls will be participating in this year’s drive led by the Meck 1 Service Unit Team for the Girl Scout’s Hornets’ Nest Council.  The girls have a goal of collecting 10,000 lbs of food this year in continued support for this great cause.

Priority needs include canned meat, canned fruit, canned pastas, 100% juice and cereal.
 Food collected will be used to fill the Loaves & Fishes food pantries located at the Ada Jenkins Center and Huntersville United Methodist Church.  

“A Can if You Can” food drive has been an annual service project for the Meck 1 Service Unit of Girl Scout Hornets’ Nest council for many years. In the past 5 years, the girls with the help of the local community, have been able to donate more than 46,000 lbs of food to Loaves & Fishes.

Loaves & Fishes is a nonprofit emergency food pantry program that provides a week’s worth of nutritional groceries at no cost to individuals and families in Mecklenburg County who are experiencing a short term crisis.  Loaves & Fishes operates a network of 20 pantries throughout Mecklenburg County. 

Last year, Loaves & Fishes fed 71,766 people, 48% of which were children.Two of our pantries are located in North Meck at the Ada Jenkins Center and Huntersville United Methodist Church.

For more information about Loaves & Fishes, please visit our website HERE or contact our office at 704-523-4333. 

Contacts:

Meck 1 Girl Scouts Krysten Hoversen 704-968-2437 cell, email: khoversen@gmail.com.
Loaves & Fishes Contact: Sue Bruce (704) 523-4333 office, (704) 651-3250 cell, email: sue@loavesandfishes.org.