Community Food Drive Starting 11-11-11

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COMMUNITY FOOD DRIVE
STARTING 11 – 11 – 11
NOVEMBER 11th, 2011

“FEED THE HOOD”

Collecting Canned Goods and Dried Foods

(Please make sure all jars are plastic)
Canned Vegetables/Fruits, Rice, Whole Grain Cereal, granola bars, peanut butter, beans, pasta, macaroni and cheese, canned tuna, pancake mix, baby food, tomato sauce, dried/canned soups, oatmeal/cream of wheat

Drop Off Locations

FOOD BANK
201 River St.
Mattapan, MA
Accepting Donations
Mon. – Fri.
10 am – 3 pm
*Can accept frozen foods as well


MAMLEO
61 Columbia Rd.
(corner of Columbia Rd. & Seaver St.)
Accepting Donations
Mon. – Fri.
9 am – 4 pm

Existing Food Pantries


Twelfth Baptist Church
160 Warren St.
Roxbury, MA
Accepting Donations
8:30 am – 10 pm Mon. – Thur.
8:30 am – 6pm Fri.
9 am – 5 pm Sat.

Food Pantry Hours
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Every Tues.


Charles St. AME
551 Warren St.
(Corner of Warren St. & Elm Hill Ave.)
Roxbury, MA
Food Pantry Hours
Every 1st & 3rd Tuesday
12 pm – 2 pm
picture id & proof of address (utility bill)
currently receiving assistance

Other Food Drive Efforts


City of Boston Can Share
http://www.cityofboston.gov/food/canshare/

Drop off locations at:
Boston Fire Houses
(Fire Houses are accepting donations 24 hrs a day)
Boston Public Libraries
Ben & Jerry’s
Shaw’s
(see complete list for participating locations)
http://www.cityofboston.gov/food/canshare/list.asp


B-2 Police Dept. Food Drive
BPD B-2 Station
135 Dudley St.
Roxbury, MA
Accepting Donations
24 hrs a day.

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Hunger is a growing problem in our community. New studies have shown an increase in poverty and hunger for children of color. Here are a few more reasons why you should help feed a family.

A growing hunger
October 23, 2011 Boston Globe
By Johanna Seltz, Globe Correspondent

The cupboards are increasingly bare at food pantries around the region as the number of people looking for help feeding their families has surged in recent weeks.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-23/news/30314036_1_pantry-officials-food-pantries-free-food

A rising hunger among children
BMC sees more who are dangerously thin and facing lasting problems
July 28, 2011 Boston Globe
By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff

Doctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families.
Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children, say the Boston Medical Center doctors. The resulting chronic hunger threatens to leave scores of infants and toddlers with lasting learning and developmental problems.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-28/lifestyle/29826064_1_food-pantries-family-physicians-emergency-room


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