Harvest Hope Food Bank and Food Lion Feeds Partner to Provide Nearly 30,000 Meals For Children At Risk of Summer Hunger in Columbia, SC
July 20, 2015
Meals Will Be Distributed At Bethlehem Baptist Church Wiley Kennedy Family Life Center
COLUMBIA, SC – On Saturday, July 25, Food Lion Feeds, through Harvest Hope, will distribute more than 30,000 meals to children facing daily hunger this summer. The distribution will take place from 11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bethlehem Baptist Church’s Wiley Kennedy Life Center located at 1037 Eastman Street in Columbia. Food Lion Associates and volunteers from Bethlehem Baptist Church will pack the food on site at the Wiley Kennedy Life Center from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., and then begin to distribute to children and families coming from the surrounding communities, with a goal to distribute to 650 children. One package will contain fresh produce while the other will contain grains, proteins and other shelf stable items.
In addition to the food donation, Food Lion Feeds is also providing Harvest Hope with $2,500 to go towards its BackPack program. Through Harvest Hope’s BackPack Program, children are provided seven child friendly, shelf stable meals to take home from school each Friday. Summer break can be a difficult time for children who suffer from daily food insecurity. During the school year, children who qualify for the free or reduced breakfast and lunch program have access to nutritious meals. The Harvest Hope-Food Lion Feeds partnership will help children in downtown Columbia have meals they may miss at school.
About Food Lion
Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., since 1957, has more than 1,100 stores in 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic States and employs more than 63,000 associates. By leveraging its longstanding heritage of low prices and convenient locations, Food Lion is working to own the easiest full shop grocery experience in the Southeast, anchored by a strong commitment to affordability, freshness and the communities it serves. Through Food Lion Feeds, the company has committed to provide 500 million meals to individuals and families in need by the end of 2020. Food Lion is a company of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group (NYSE: DEG). For more information, visit www.foodlion.com.
About Harvest Hope
Harvest Hope began in Columbia in 1981 as a shared vision of business and faith leaders wishing to provide for the hungry in their community. From simple beginnings, Harvest Hope increased the scope of its mission and now provides hunger relief to struggling individuals and families across 20 counties, in the Pee Dee, Midlands and Greater Greenville regions of South Carolina.
To help end hunger in our South Carolina communities and bring more meals to tables of struggling families, individuals, seniors and children, Harvest Hope pledges their One Goal of providing 26.7 million meals to South Carolinians every year by 2018. To learn more about Harvest Hope’s mission and how you can help provide for South Carolinians struggling with hunger, visit www.harvesthope.org.
