Last weekend, Move For Hunger and Atlantic Coast Moving & Storage, a National Van Lines agent, met up at Wildwood Beach for the fifth annual New Jersey Jeep Invasion. This weekend-long beach party was a chance for Jeep owners in the tri-state area to donate non-perishable food items in exchange for a chance to win more than 100 prizes.
While hundreds of Jeeps were parked on the beach, our volunteers and staff members worked two stations to collect food donations. During the 2016 Jeep Invasion, more than 4,000 pounds of non-perishable food were collected. This year, we nearly doubled that total: In just two days, the Jeep Invasion attendees donated more than 7,800 pounds of food -- enough to provide 6,500 meals!
Since 2014, we've collected nearly 20,000 pounds of food -- about 16,500 meals -- at the Jeep Invasion. These are impressive numbers, but the reality is that nearly 1 million people, including 1 in 7 children, in New Jersey still face food insecurity. Our efforts will certainly not stop here.
Thank you to everyone at NJ Jeep Invasion and to our tireless volunteers for helping us kick off the summer season in an incredible way! We also cannot thank our friends at Atlantic Coast Moving & Storage enough for helping us out all weekend and for delivering all of the donations to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey's Southern Branch. We could not have done this without you!
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