School Holiday Hunger Challenge aims to collect 100,000 pounds of food
Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Senator Jennifer Beck visited The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties on Monday, November 21 to observe the end of this year’s School Holiday Hunger Challenge. For the past two months, The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties has challenged all elementary, intermediate and high schools, public and private, to think of those less fortunate this holiday season by running a special food drive. Area schools made a huge difference with this event; more than 50,000 students from 87 area schools committed to be part of the challenge. On December 5 the FoodBank will award a champion’s trophy to the school that collected the most pounds of food per student.
According to the FoodBank, two out of every five people served are children. The number of people depending on food from the organization has increased by 84 percent in the past four years. The FoodBank distributes 7 million pounds of emergency food annually to a network of approximately 260 hunger relief organizations in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. For more information visit foodbankmoc.org or call (732) 918-2600.
