Barnabas Center Press Release
Submitted by Mary Pitcher
Community Relations Manager
May 29, 2014 1:00 p.m.
Thank You – To Our Community!
We, at Barnabas, want to say “Thank You” to each and every one who volunteered for the Fernandina Beach US Postal Service Letter Carriers 2014 “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive and the community at large for making the event an overwhelming success.
This year the community donated a little over 17,000 pounds of food during the one-day drive. That’s 3,000 pounds more than the previous year. The postal carriers did the hard work of loading the donated food into their trucks along their mail routes.
Unloading, sorting, and boxing the food requires the help of many—and many in our community helped! We are truly grateful for all the assistance from: the News Leader, Barnabas volunteers, Alert Cadets and their fathers, Nassau County employees, Yulee High students, Coalition of Sailors and Marines, Rayonier employees, Cotner and Associates and the many others. Over 75 volunteers assisted with the handling of the food donations that were delivered to Barnabas by the postal letter carriers.
We are also grateful for our community—a community of caring, committed citizens willing to do what they can to help others in need. Thanks for being the difference that makes a difference for someone experiencing hunger.
Each year, the Barnabas Food Pantry provides over 100,000 pounds of food to individuals and families right here in Nassau County who are “food insecure”, meaning they don’t know where their next nutritionally adequate meal is coming from. The “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive will greatly help Barnabas in its endeavor to address “food insecurity” in our community.
Barnabas is the comprehensive service center in Nassau County that helps our neighbors in crisis with a compassionate helping hand so they can become healthy, productive citizens, strengthening our entire community.
For more information about Barnabas’ Food Pantry please visit our newly updated website at www.BarnabasNassau.org.