Kate Frye, a stay-at-home mom from Smyrna, Tennessee, partnered with two local businesses to host a holiday food drive from November 1-December 31. That wasn't her original intention, though.
“I wanted to find a place locally where I could volunteer,” Frye told the Daily News Journal.
Frye began searching for ways she could help, and decided to contact Move For Hunger. After speaking with our events team, Frye had a better idea about how to begin. She contacted The Alley on Main, a restaurant in Murfreesboro, TN , which agreed to host the food drive.
We connected Frye with a local moving company, Armstrong Relocation, who provided boxes for the collection and offered to pick up and deliver the donations to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.
At the end of the 2-month long food drive, Frye had collected more than 250 pounds of food - that's enough to provide 210 meals to her neighbors in need!
Over 1.1 million people in Tennessee go hungry every day, including 1 in 5 children. Thank you Kate, The Alley on Main, and Armstrong Relocation for doing your part to fight hunger in the Volunteer State!
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