“Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive” is Saturday, May 12. This will be the 26th year nationwide. The Letter Carrier Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the outgrowth of a tradition of community service exhibited by members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) over the last 125 years.

Each year, groups, businesses and organizations join the letter carriers at the local, regional and national levels to help grow a campaign of hunger awareness and community action in conducting this one-day, record-making food drive. Locally, the letter carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive enjoys partnerships with many church and faith groups.

This year again locally we are partnering with the local food pantries to make this one of the largest food drives in Howard, Tipton and Miami counties. In 2017, we celebrated our Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive’s 25th anniversary, and branches all across the United States collected more than 75 million pounds of food for a cumulative total of approximately 1.6 billion pounds over the history of the drive — an awesome achievement.

What this means locally is it will help fill the food pantries when the demand for food rises due to schools being out.

Here are some of the names of the pantries locally that this food drive has helped: Crossroads Servant Ministries, Kokomo Rescue Mission, The Salvation Army, Samaritan Love Center, St. Luke’s UMC, St. Vincent de Paul, Wayman Chapel, New Hope Church, Main Street UMC, Zion Tabernacle, to name a few.

You can make a difference in this fight of hunger. On Saturday, May 12, if you would put out your non-perishable food items at 9 a.m. by your mailboxes, your carrier and volunteers will do the rest. Together we can make the difference in our community to help Stamp Out Hunger.

Pam Jones, NALC Branch 533

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