I’m proud to be a part of fueling up my community!
The “Community Mobile Pantry” is our way of giving back to the community. Fuel Up to Play 60 joined David Schwake, Food Service Director in our district and St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance to help feed families in need of extra food on the weekends. We started out with setting up every other weekend and now we set up every weekend. We see more and more families come out each pantry we have set up.
We get the word out by flyers and posting on social media. St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance drops off 8-10 big cases of nutritional food at 6:00am on Saturday. Every week there are different kinds of food that are donated. Our group of volunteers show up at 6:30am on Saturday to start setting up. We work on setting up the tables, bagging loose vegetables or fruit, and pick our stations to be in charge of. At 7:30am we start. As the families start a line after they first sign in. St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance needs to keep track of how many families we help feed. They bring their own bags and boxes. Then they walk from table to table, and we help with giving them fresh and healthy food. We even help with taking food to their cars because some people need extra help. Then once all the food is gone we clean up at 9:00am.
We feed over 300 people just in line for a Saturday. Afterwards, we total up the sign in sheets and the amount of people and families that sign in. We are feeding over a 1,000 people with this food we are giving them. Our Fuel Up to Play 60 squad and our community is passionate about helping others!
If you have any questions about the mobile pantries, I am happy to answer them in the comments. My next pantry is tomorrow and I have a friend from the other side of town an hour away coming to help volunteer. Word is getting out! If we all come together we can make a big difference with ending hunger!
BreElle
Arizona
State Ambassador
6th Grade
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