2017 Bellya Summer In Review: The Amazing Final Food Drive Count!

The Bellevue community donated an incredible 2,526 items to our food drive for the local pantry! 

Pantries especially need resources during the summer months and so the library collected nonperishable food items and hygiene products throughout June and July to bolster their supplies.

To encourage participation, we tied the food drive into our very relevant Summer Library Program theme: Build A Better World! Adults, teens, and kids could all earn incentives by bringing canned or boxed goods to our table station, where a running count display was kept (50 items = another heart grocery bag on the chart). We provided a food drive handout, so you could take a shopping list of the pantry's most needed items to the store!

Shopping list: what the pantry needed most!

Kids Cruisin' Kitchen also came to further our anti-hunger efforts! Sponsored by the Omaha Salvation Army, Food Bank for the Heartland, and Hunger Free Heartland, this program delivers hot, nutritious meals free of charge. People 19 years of age or younger and their families were eligible to visit the food truck starting late May. And it's still ongoing now, 12:00-12:45 PM, through Wednesday, August 9th! 🍲

Thank you for helping us exceed our goal of 2500 items by July 22nd! ❤

You can continue donating to the Bellevue Pantry at 1908 Hancock Street. Call them at 402-292-2961 to check their service hours and check their web site for the most current list of "Needed Now" items.

We collected 741 items in just the first week!

posted on 8/01/2017 05:52:00 PM

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