Annual Back to School Food Drive Raises $3700 in Donations!
The Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore recently held its annual Back to School Food Drive on Friday September 20 to assist the Food4Kids Niagara Program.Club members staffed collection bins at two "No Frills" stores in St. Catharines from 1 to 5 p.m.
As reported by Rotary of St. Club Food4Kids Chair Marlene Mader, “Shoppers at the two locations once again dug deep this year. After sorting and counting at Food4Kids, the Community had responded by donating over $3,700 in requested food items and monetary donations.”
Food4Kids provides packages of healthy food for children up to 14 years with limited or no access to food each weekend.
The food packages are assembled by volunteers and delivered to schools each Friday to ensure children have nourishment over the weekend. There are over 1500 children in Niagara struggling through each weekend without enough food.
Rotarians passed out lists of most needed items to create these packages to customers as they entered each of the two No Frills stores located at 581 Lake Street and at 525 Welland Avenue on Friday.
- Eric Jones