🍎 Help Local Food Banks 🥑 The Nourishing Neighbors Food Drive kicks off today! Donate at a Safeway during your next shopping trip and help move the community forward! Tap for more info:
– a collaboration of seven food banks serving 11 Northern California counties. The campaign will take place at 162 Safeway locations throughout the Bay Area Even before COVID-19, Bay Area food banks were responding to a level of food insecurity in the region that indicated there was already a crisis. The economic crisis created by the pandemic has pushed many families deeper into poverty and caused others to seek food assistance for the very first time.
“The need to support our neighbors struggling with food insecurity is greater than ever,” said Stacy Owen, President and General Manager of NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48. “NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48 are committed to raising vital funds and providing much-needed food for our local food banks. We are grateful for our partnership with Safeway and the generosity of its shoppers.
We’re proud to be a part of this collaborative effort to help nourish our neighbors this holiday season through local food banks,” said Karl Schroeder, Division President of Safeway Northern California. “Together, with NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48, we will help put food on the table for families in need across the Bay Area. We want to thank our customers and store associates, whose generous support helps makes this program possible.
Last year, NBC Bay Area / KNTV, Telemundo 48 Área de la Bahía / KSTS, and Safeway collected over $4.3 million for its 2021 holiday food drive campaign. The donation was equivalent to over 8.6 million meals. “The Bay Area has been hit by a confluence of challenges in recent years,” says Regi Young, executive director of Alameda County Community Food Bank. “Just as we started to sense some recovery from the pandemic, record inflation forced many more of us to make impossible decisions like paying for food, rent, gas, or medicine. Today, lines at our distributions are just as long as they were at the height of the pandemic.
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