Feed Forsyth had a Busy Year in 2013
Feed the Hungry Forsyth delivered a total of 84,761 lbs of food to 18 community food ministries in 2013 including: Abba House, ACT Together Ministries, Bald Ridge Lodge, City on a Hill Church, Cumming First UMC, Cumming Home Ministries, First Christian Church, Freedom Tabernacle, Helping Hands Food Pantry, Hightower Baptist Association Food Bank, John 6:35 Food Pantry (Greater Heights Baptist Church), Hope House, Jesse’s House, Meals by Grace, MSG Foundation, No Longer Bound, St. Joseph’s Food Pantry (St. Brendan’s The Navigator), and The Place of Forsyth. Additionally, Feed Forsyth partnered with community businesses holding several food drives during the year collecting 21,926 lbs of canned goods.
Community food pantries are seeing an increase in the number of families seeking assistance due to the decrease in federal assistance. At the same time, there has been a decrease in the supply of food the pantries are receiving from other sources. Feed Forsyth sees this situation as a call to action to fill the gap and is seeking to partner with additional restaurants and grocery stores that have been throwing away safe edible food at the end of their business day and take that food and put it back in the food supply for struggling families in Forsyth County. The organization is actively raising funds to purchase a second refrigerated truck to increase the amount of food it can move each week. Plans are being made to hold additional food drives to help provide for the Summer Bags of Love ministry operated by several of the pantries.
Feed the Hungry Forsyth, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit food rescue organization collecting bread, meats, and other foods that restaurants and other businesses would normally throw away and delivering to food pantries that provide food to the hungry in our community.
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