Harvest Hope joins Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month campaign to ensure food isn’t an impossible choice
September 8, 2021
Hunger Action Month inspires the local community to take action to help the 54,560 individuals facing hunger in Greenville and Laurens counties
For Hunger Action Month® this September, Harvest Hope will join Feeding America and other network member food banks to inspire people to take action and raise awareness of people facing the impossible choice of hunger. Food banks around the country are working to make a real and lasting impact on food insecurity in their communities, and they are asking for the public’s support.
September marks the 14th year Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a nationwide network of 200 food banks, including Harvest Hope, and 60,000 partner food pantries and meal programs, has organized the annual call to action. This year’s campaign presents the impossible choices that millions of Americans must make between food and other basic needs.
“Hunger Action Month is a time to celebrate how far we’ve come in the fight against hunger and continue to inspire others to get involved,” says Erinn Rowe, Harvest Hope CEO. “No action is too small and together we can build a hunger-free tomorrow across South Carolina.”
During the month of September, people across the Upstate can get involved in the movement by learning, committing, and speaking up about ways to ending hunger.
• Donate to help provide meals to those in need (https://give.harvesthope.org/ge/ham)
• Purchase a Hunger Action Month t-shirt to help spread awareness (https://frenzytees.com/pages/hunger-action-month)
• Sign up to volunteer at one of our branches (https://bit.ly/3hJ55tw)
• Host a food drive (https://bit.ly/2FUA9rR)
• Shop our Amazon Wish List (https://amzn.to/38w0gR7)
Learn more about how you can take action by visiting harvesthope.org/action.
About Harvest Hope
Harvest Hope is building a hunger-free tomorrow in 20 counties across South Carolina, including Greenville and Laurens counties. Rescuing food from stores that is at risk of being discarded, as well as sourcing food from the community and producers, they distribute it to local food pantries and through feeding programs. Programs provide food for some of SC’s most vulnerable citizens – children, seniors, and rural residents who don’t have access to reliable transportation to grocery stores. Annually, Harvest Hope provides over 22 million meals to neighbors in need across their service area.
About Feeding America
Feeding America® is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs, we provide meals to more than 40 million people each year. Feeding America also supports programs that prevent food waste and improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Visit www.feedingamerica.org, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
