Stamp Out Hunger

On Saturday, May 9th there were several service opportunities in the Goshen Community. I decided that I wanted to help with the "Stamp Out Hunger" project which was a joint venture between the US Postal Service and the United Way. I spent the morning driving around Goshen with two teenage girls picking up bags of groceries that residents had left sitting under their mailboxes. We did that for about 3 hours. After that I had some pizza for lunch and then spent the afternoon helping to sort the food and organize it in the stockroom. I was amazed with the sheer volume of food that was collected, but then was a bit discouraged by the fact that all that food would only last a month or so in the food pantry. The need in our community is so high right now given the loss of jobs in the RV industry.

A bag of food under a mailbox waiting for us to collect it!

The back of my car was packed out...several times!