SOUDERTON — Keystone Alternative Middle was a beneficiary of the Might 10 Nationwide Affiliation of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) thirty second annual Stamp Out Starvation meals drive, the biggest single-day meals assortment occasion within the nation.
As a part of the occasion, native letter carriers collected non-perishable meals donations from Souderton-Telford space residents and delivered them to neighborhood meals pantries, together with Keystone Alternative Middle, which helps greater than 5,000 people yearly in Montgomery and Bucks counties, stated a Keystone press launch.
All through the afternoon, Keystone volunteers sorted and processed the meals donations on the group’s meals pantry. The drive comes at a vital time as meals banks grapple with federal funding cuts whereas they put together for elevated demand through the summer season months when faculty meal packages pause, stated the discharge.
“We’re so very grateful for the wonderful volunteers and the devoted workers on the Souderton Telford Submit Workplace for his or her invaluable help through the Nationwide Affiliation of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Starvation Meals Drive on Might 10,” stated Clarice Foster, Keystone’s meals pantry supervisor. “Because of their efforts, 2,979 kilos of meals had been collected, sorted, and stocked. We really couldn’t do that with out them. Their dedication and help helps us serve greater than 250 households every month by means of our meals pantry.”
Since its inception in 1993, the Stamp Out Starvation meals drive has collected greater than 1.9 billion kilos of meals nationwide. The trouble is supported by the U.S. Postal Service, the Nationwide Rural Letter Carriers’ Affiliation, United Method, the AFL-CIO, Valpak and native meals charities.
Keystone Alternative Middle, based in 2009 and headquartered in Souderton, Pa., is a nonprofit human companies group that yearly helps greater than 5000 households and people in want by means of a complete array of social companies that educate, encourage, and empower them to develop into self-sufficient members of their neighborhood. Applications and companies embrace housing the homeless, combatting meals insecurity, and offering free complete grownup schooling companies. For extra data, go to keystoneopportunity.org.
