The need for food is urgent in Lehigh Acres! Our community is experiencing a continued need for food—and this will increase as summer arrives and students no longer have access to school-related food programs. The Lehigh Community Services (LCS)needs the Lehigh Acres community to assist in the “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive on Saturday, May 11.
The “Stamp Out Hunger” event is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Letter carriers in the two counties will be collecting nonperishable food during their 21st annual drive. In addition to donated food, help is needed for two aspects of the food collection: Drivers are needed to assist letter carriers in picking up the food and volunteers are needed to complete a preliminary sort of the food.
“Stamp Out Hunger” is the one day when letter carriers collect non-perishable food that has been left by mailboxes. Food collected in Lehigh Acres will be distributed by LCS.
To help letter carriers with their pickups on May 11, it will be a huge deal for us at LCS and a very physical activity. The main fun starts about 1:00pm and concludes around 5:30pm. We have lots of kids and adults volunteering and the letter carriers almost “compete” with each other to see who can bring in the most mail bins full of food. We have 4 drop off locations: LCS, Faith Lutheran, 7-11 on Joel Blvd. and 7-11 on Gunnery & Lee.