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Stamp Out Hunger This Saturday

The National Association of Letter Carriers collected more than 77.1 million pounds of non-perishable goods during last year's food drive.

Don't forget to make a trip to your mailbox this Saturday, only you won't need a stamp - just a non-perishable food item!

Since 1993 the National Association of Letter Carrier has collected more than one billion pounds of food through its annual nationwide event, "Stamp Out Hunger" – America’s largest single-day food drive.

On Saturday, more than 1,500 NALC branches from every state, involving more than 10,000 cities and towns, will have more than 230,000 letter carriers collect non-perishable goods from people’s mailboxes.

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Residents can leave non-perishable food in bags next to mailboxes if donations exceed the mailbox size. 

Here in Middlesex County, your non-perishable food donations will benefit the Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries in Old Saybrook and Middletown's Amazing Grace food pantry. Most-needed now are low-sodium soup, fruit juice, canned ham, breakfast cereal, and canned vegetables, beans, ravioli or chili.

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Both Amazing Grace and SSKP serve more than 780,000 meals per year or 65,000 meals per month.

According to the NALC, the need for donations is greater than ever. The organization stated, “According to the Agriculture Department's most recent study of food security in the United States in 2009, the number of Americans living in so-called 'food insecure' homes topped 50 million. Of those, 17.2 million are children.”

Campbell’s, a long supporter of the drive, will donate one pound of food (up to one million pounds) to Feeding America for every person who joins the Stamp Out Hunger Facebook community. Additionally, you can join Stamp Out Hunger on Twitter to follow the national collection online as food is gathered this Saturday.


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