Summer is a happy time for all of us and what better way to enjoy this season by knowing that the people of the Big Bend area will have food to survive these hot, upcoming months?
AMWAT Moving Warehousing Storage, who has been working with Move For Hunger for the past 5 years, has worked hard yet again for another successful food drive. On June 26th, AMWAT, Move For Hunger, Junior League of Tallahassee, and Second Harvest of The Big Bend teamed up for their 1st Inaugural Summer Fil-A-Truck food drive, collecting an unbelievable amount of non-perishable food items to help fight hunger in the Tallahassee area.
According to Feeding America, more than 98,990 people living in the Big Bend area are at risk of hunger each month; one third of those at risk being children. With this startling statistic, 6,597 pounds of food were collected in Cascade Park during the six-hour period.
Once AMWAT Moving Warehousing Storage, an agent of Wheaton Van Lines, brought all the food donations to Second Harvest of The Big Bend, it was concluded that 5,495 meals were raised to feed those who suffer from hunger. Among all the volunteering corporations, Coldwell Banker Hartung and Noblin Inc. won the corporate challenge raising 2,735 meals on their own.
Want to hold your own food drive? Visit our Start a Food Drive page to get tips and strategies on how to make your drive a success!
