Never underestimate our kids because sometimes they go off and host a food drive that brings in nearly 2,000 lbs of food! Lucy Kinney of Naperville, Illinois hosted one of our very first Front Porch Food Drives.
She passed out bags all around her neighborhood and asked them to drop off a bag or box of food at her front door or text “Move For Hunger” to her so she’ll pick it up in front of their house. The neighborhood rallied behind the cause to donate 1,840 lbs of food (1,500 meals)!
Lucy got the assist from her mom who works for Boyer-Rosene Moving & Storage, a Bekins agent, who transported all of the food to a nearby homeless shelter, the Hesed House in Aurora.
While the food insecurity rate in Dupage County is relatively low at 5.9%, the county sits right outside of Chicago’s Cook County which is nearly double the food insecurity rate. The food comes at a much needed time when unemployment is skyrocketing, and it’s estimated that 17 million more Americans are going hungry because of the pandemic.
Boyer-Rosene Moving & Storage has worked with Move For Hunger on several events and has transported nearly 2,500 lbs (2,040 meals).
Be Like Lucy! You can host our own Front Porch Food Drive! Click here to get started.
