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BE A HUNGER HERO FOR KIDS School will be out soon, leaving more than 250,000 children in southeast Michigan without the free or reduced‐fee school lunches they rely on for their daily nutrition. Gleaners wants these children have a happy summer, not a hungry one. Our goal is to provide 2 million meals for kids and their families during the summer months, when kids are most vulnerable to hunger. But we need your help. On Saturday, May 30, Gleaners is sponsoring a food drive in your neighborhood. We are asking residents to help us feed hungry children and families by leaving a bag of nutritious nonperishable food at their front door before 10 a.m. Volunteers will collect the food and bring it to a Gleaners truck for transporting to our distribution center, where it will be sorted and distributed to our partner soup kitchens, food pantries and other agencies. FOOD DRIVE DETAILS FOR MAY 30
• We need volunteers in groups of 6: 2 cars with drivers and 4 walkers. Drivers must be 18 or older and each group must have at least one cell phone. Kids and families are welcome. It is helpful if one person can be designated the team leader and will check in for the group on the day of the event.
• Each volunteer group will be given a map with specific streets they need to canvass. One car will drive down the street while walkers collect food off of porches and load it into the car. When the car is full, it will drive to the drop off site at our central location, while the other car is being filled.
• Check in for the day will begin at 9:30am and volunteers will canvass neighborhoods from 10 – 2 pm, with a maximum of 2.5 hours of collecting food and 1 hour for breaks or lunch. You can work through and be done earlier, if you prefer. Total walking will be about 20 blocks.
• Our registration and central drop off site will be Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church at 211 Moross, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236. This is where we will have check in, where all food will be dropped off and where we will have volunteers to help unload the food and a Gleaners truck to transport the food. We will also have access to bathrooms.
• We collect rain or shine, so be prepared for the weather (rain gear, sunscreen, etc.) • Walkers will be given safety vests and cars will have magnetic signs and green flashing lights for
the roof to identify them as Gleaners volunteers. • More information is available at www.hungerhero.org or by contacting Stephanie Melnick at
[email protected], or by phone at 1‐866‐GLEANER (453‐2637) ext. 270.