Toyota held its 15th annual Tundra Food Drive Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park benefitting Philabundance.
Nearly 85 Tundra pickup trucks hauled pallets of food that will be donated to people suffering from food insecurity in the Philadelphia region."We started this 15 years ago with five trucks," said Paul Muller, President of them Tri-State Toyota Dealers Association. "To now this year we have 84 trucks, 340,000 pounds of food to make 230,000 meals."Muller said one in seven families in the Philadelphia region, including one in three children, suffer from food insecurity.
Philabundance CEO Loree Jones-Brown said, "We have all the sports teams, all the media outlets, we have the associates from across this region coming out and what we love about that is we realize to fight hunger, it’s going to take partnership, collaboration and that’s what represented here today."The "Haul Away Hunger" event took over Lot P next to Citizens Bank Park.
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