You're never too young to help fight hunger. Reeves-Rogers Elementary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee proved it by hosting a week-long food drive in March. The school partnered with Apex Moving + Storage, an Atlas Van Lines agent, after hearing about food drives they helped out with at other schools in the neighborhood.
More than 950 lbs. of non-perishable food was donated -- that's enough to provide 800 meals to their neighbors in need! Apex Moving + Storage volunteered to pick up and deliver all of the donations to The Journey Home.
The students were rewarded with a pizza and ice cream party and the teachers from the top 3 classrooms received gift cards to use for supplies. Sounds like a win-win for everyone involved!
Apex Moving + Storage has been helping students at several local schools to help fight hunger over the past few months. In December the crew partnered with Barfield Elementary School and collected 3,520 lbs. of food, which is the equivalent of 2,900 meals! Not too far away in Antioch, Apex Moving + Storage teamed up with Brown's Chapel Elementary and LaVergne Primary School to host Thanksgiving food drives, which brought in 7,000 lbs. of food -- enough to provide 5,800 meals!
More than 35,000 people in Rutherford County, Tennessee are food insecure, including 1 in 6 children. Thank you to Reeves-Rogers Elementary School and to the team at Apex Moving + Storage for working together to make a difference.
Interested in hosting a food drive at your school? Learn how Move for Hunger can help!
