You have a chance to help struggling families in our community find the food they desperately need.
The 10th annual Food from the Heart drive is taking place Saturday, March 24, 2018 at participating grocery stores in Richland and Lexington Counties. The event supports Harvest Hope Food Bank.
The drive will begin at 9:00 am.
This year’s food drive will have 25 participating Richland and Lexington County grocery stores and be worked by over 600 volunteers. The past Food From The Heart food drives have always been a huge success making it one on of Harvest Hope’s largest food collection days each year. Last year’s drive raised 188,200 pounds of food.
Northside Baptist Church and Brookland Baptist churches will the participating churches. They are working diligently to make the 10th Annual Food From The Heart event the largest, one-day, food drive for Harvest Hope Food Bank in the history of the organization.
The food drive will be organized and worked by volunteers from Northside Baptist Church and Brookland Baptist members as they positions themselves outside stores to offer shoppers the opportunity to take a red “Food from The Heart” grocery bag. Participants will be asked to purchase items off a list of suggested food bank needs. Items include canned goods, rice, beans, diapers, baby food and other items. The bags are collected outside the stores and taken to Harvest Hope Food Bank where church volunteers sort the items. The donations will be distributed to local food pantries and soup kitchens. One hundred percent of all goods collected will benefit men, women and children in the Midlands.
Here is the list of participating stores:
Cayce - Bi-Lo 2453 Charleston Highway
Cayce - Bi-Lo 300 Knox Abbot Drive
Cayce -Walmart Neighborhood Market 1366 Knox Abbot Drive
Columbia - Walmart 5420 Forest Drive
Columbia - Sam's Club Fashion Drive Sandhill
Columbia - Kroger 10136 Two Notch Road
Columbia - Kroger 1028 Roberts Branch Road
Columbia - Bi-Lo 4464 Devine Street
Columbia - Bi-Lo 9003 Two Notch Road
Columbia - Bi-Lo 7830 Garners Ferry Road
Columbia - Walmart Neighborhood Market - 3603 Broad River Road
Columbia - Walmart 1326 Bush River Road
Columbia - Walmart 360 Harbison Boulevard
Columbia - Bi-Lo 6021 St. Andrews Road
Columbia - Sam's Club 350 Harbison Boulevard
Irmo - Kroger 7467 St. Andrews Road
Irmo - Bi-Lo 7949 Broad River Road
Lexington - Bi-Lo 760 Highway 378
Lexington - Walmart Neighborhood Market 1019 Old Barnwell Road
Lexington - Bi-Lo 421 Columbia Avenue
Lexington - Walmart 5556 Sunset Boulevard
West Columbia - Bi-Lo 2349 Augusta Road
West Columbia - Walmart 2401 Augusta Road
West Columbia - Bi-Lo 2916 Emmanuel Church Road
Harvest Hope Food Bank serves over 20 counties throughout the Midlands, Upstate and Pee Dee. In 2017, Harvest Hope Food Bank served:
• More than 31 million pounds of food and 27 million meals
• 7.6 million meals out of our Emergency Food Pantries
• 718,810 meals out of our Mobile Food Pantries
Every $1 contributed to Harvest Hope provides 5 meals to the hungry.
In the Midlands, one in five children and one in six seniors are at risk of missing meals each week.
According to the Food Research and Action Center, South Carolina has one of the highest rates of food hardship in the nation. South Carolina ranks 5th in the nation for childhood poverty, with 25% of children living in poverty across the state.
WLTX is a proud sponsor of the food drive.
