This Sunday, the Church of the Good Shepherd will kick off their second WeFeed food drive. They're the first Church in the program to run a second food drive!! Thanks for participating!
The Healthcare Collaborative food drive was a friendly competition between members of the Norfolk Healthcare Collaborative to see who could raise the most food during a critical period of time — the summer months. Employees, visitors and friends of each team brought in food donations. At the end of each team’s food drive, the Foodbank of SEVA sent a truck to collect the donations and weigh the total food collected. The goal was to raise awareness about food insecurity and help those in need!
7,990 lbs. of food = 6,659 meals for the hungry
Food Drive Results:
1st) Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital
3,143 lbs. = 2,619 meals
2nd) NDPH/EVMS/City of Norfolk
2,576 lbs. = 2,147 meals
3rd) Sentara Leigh & Sentara Norfolk General
1,968 lbs. = 1,640 meals
4th) DePaul Medical Center
303 lbs. = 253 meals
Lake Taylor just requested another pallet for their food drive, as they have already completely filled all of the donation barrels they started with. Keep up the good work!!
Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital is gearing up to run their two-week long food drive as part of the Healthcare Collaborative Food Drive Competition. Two of the other teams have finished their drives already, raising almost 5,000 lbs of food in the process. Let's see what Lake Taylor can do!!!
Yesterday, there was a meeting to discuss how the Virginia Beach Public Schools could help combat food insecurity in our community. Shannon Kane from VB gov, David Richards of We Feed, and administrators from the school system came together to discuss how to take action. Preliminary steps were made in formulating a coherent plan for the year. As it stands, the elementary school kids will spend a few months recording food waste in the school. These data points will then be handed to the high schoolers in their government class to discuss and formulate an action plan for how to change congress' stance on disposing prepared food. The best of these plans will be submitted to a panel of judges to determine who wins a prize!
This week, the Foodbank of SEVA collected donations from Global Outreach Church and Flame 3:2 Church. They respectively brought in 712 lbs and 263 lbs of food donations. This brings We Feed's total collected food to over 35,000 lbs!
Today, Bon Secours Medical Center begins their food drive as part of the Norfolk Healthcare Collaborative food drive competition. Thier food drive will run until 8/12/16. Good Luck!!
Yesterday, the Foodbank of SEVA picked up 1,560 lbs of donations brought into Abyssinia Baptist Church during last week's food drive. That equates to about 1,300 meals provided to the hungry in our community. Great job!!!
Yesterday, the Foodbank of SEVA picked up 2,577 lbs of food from CrossRoads Church. This equates to 2,147 meals provided to the hungry in our community. This is especially important during the summer months when the Foodbank is running low on donations and the children who live in food insecure households do not have access to school lunch programs.
This past week, Abyssinia Baptist Church filled nearly 300 WeFeed bags with donations for the Foodbank of SEVA. The Foodbank is scheduled to pick the donations up tomorrow to be weighed, sorted, and distributed to those in need. When members of our community mobilize on important issues like food insecurity, as happened here, we have the opportunity to make a difference. Way to go!!
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