America's Largest Single-Day Food Drive

 restaurants may proudly boast “Over a Billion Served,” but the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) can say the same when it comes to pounds of food collected for the needy.

Since 1993 the NALC has collected more than one billion pounds of food through its annual nationwide event, "Stamp Out Hunger"—America’s largest single-day food drive.

South Pas is no stranger to the national food drive. collected thousands of canned goods from locals May 14, which were donated to  giving bank.

Across the country, more than 1,500 NALC branches from every state (including more than 10,000 cities and towns) collected non-perishable goods from people’s mailboxes last Saturday. Last year, 77.1 billion pounds of food were collected nationwide.

According to the NALC, the need for donations is greater than ever. The organization stated, “According to the Agriculture Department's most recent study of food security in the United States in 2009, the number of Americans living in so-called 'food insecure' homes topped 50 million. Of those, 17.2 million are children.”

For more information on donating to Holy Family, click HERE.