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2018-05-19
9 AM - 3 PM |
Operation Food Search's 10th Annual Shop Out Hunger Day |
Community Events |
| Event Description: |
Operation Food Search (OFS), a non-profit hunger relief organization, will host its 10th annual Shop Out Hunger Day. The region-wide food drive is held to restock the shelves of both its distribution center located at 1644 Lotsie Blvd. and its 220 community partner agencies.
Volunteers from over 220 agencies will be staffed outside of more than 130 grocery stores – including Dierbergs, Schnucks, Shop-n-Save, and Straub’s – collecting non-perishable food items and donations that will stay in each area’s community. OFS also teams up with numerous community partners including Franklin County Hunger Task Force, Jefferson County Hunger Task Force, St. Charles Community Council, and area food pantries across 12 counties.
Founded in 1981, Operation Food Search (OFS) is a hunger relief organization that provides food and nutrition education. With a strategic focus aimed at ending childhood hunger, OFS empowers families with a range of programs and services proven to reduce food insecurity and increase access to healthy and affordable food. OFS helps feed more than 200,000 individuals on a monthly basis – one-third of which are children – through a network of 330 community partners in 31 Missouri and Illinois counties.
Volunteers are needed to greet customers and collect donations at various grocery store partners located in Missouri (Jefferson and Franklin Counties, St. Charles, Warren, Lincoln, St. Francois, and St. Louis City and County) and Illinois (St. Clair, Marion, Jackson, and Madison Counties). For further details on volunteering or donating food, call (314) 726-5355 or visit ShopOutHunger.OperationFoodSearch.org.
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Various grocery store partners |
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Free |
| Contact |
Sunny Schaefer |
| Event Sponsor: |
Operation Food Search |
| Contact Phone: |
3147265355 |
| Contact Website: |
http://www.operationfoodsearch.org |
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