CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – This weekend, helping the hungry is as easy as leaving food right by your mailbox.
Stamp Out Hunger, the country’s largest single-day food drive is back on Saturday, May 10.
Here in Virginia, letter carriers will pick up donations from across the community, while volunteers will help sort and distribute the food to the different branches of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
The drive comes as the Food Bank is seeing higher and higher demand, and also after $1 billion was cut from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“Things like this that really bring people together, unite them under one effort to provide that support are crucial to what we’re doing,” said Livia Marrs, the Volunteer and Food Drive Manager with the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. “All you have to do is put [the food] out by your mailbox at 8 a.m., and so instead of having to drive, someone is going to do the hard work of coming and getting it for you.”
Marrs is asking people to donate non-perishable, healthy foods for those in need.
If you’d like to learn more about Stamp Out Hunger, you can do so here.
If you’d like to learn more about getting involved with the Food Bank, you can do so here.
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