Sugar Land’s Share Your Holiday Food Drive, scheduled from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec.4 at the Sugar Land Community Center, 226 Matlage Way, will benefit efforts of the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry to address the basic needs of local families in crisis.
The ministry serves the community’s less fortunate through programs like the Interfaith Food Pantry, the Tri-City Churches Resale Shop, a financial assistance program, food fairs and other special programs.
Residents can support the ministry’s efforts during Sugar Land’s food drive through donations of canned goods, beans, dried fruit, flour, rice, sugar, powdered and canned milk, baby formula and diapers and other non-perishable food items.
Volunteers will assist city staff to collect the donations in a drive-through style drop-off lane during the event. Cash donations or checks made payable to the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry will also be accepted.
More than 14,000 pounds of food and more than $600 in monetary donations were collected during last year’s food drive. The East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry served 11,132 families in 2008, including 19,769 adults and 14,655 children. More than 33,300 individuals were assisted through the ministry’s food pantry, and the value of food distributed in 2008 was more than $506,300.
For more information about Sugar Land’s Share Your Holiday Food Drive, call 281-275-2885 or visit www.sugarlandtx.gov.
By: FortBendNow Staff on Fri, Nov 20, 2009
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