SAN ANTONIO – Feed SA has a one million meal goal!
Feed SA is a city-wide movement to help fight hunger. Every Feed SA season, there is a call for local organizations to fundraise, donate and serve with the San Antonio Food Bank.
It is easy to help out with this year’s campaign, which will run April 15th to June 15 with the goal to raise one million meals.
“Feed SA is a citywide movement to give time, money, and a voice to the mission in the work of the San Antonio Food Bank,” Damaris Fike, with Feed SA said.
Fike is the lead at Feed SA, an organization that started in 2009 to help families in and around the community.
“We’ve raised over 2 million meals throughout the 14 years of doing this. And just a couple of years ago, we almost hit 1 million. And so that is what our goal is this year, is to get to filling up the shelves here at the food bank,” Fike said.
Snap benefits were lowered last month and the food bank is feeling the impact. There’s now empty shelf after empty shelf.
”Those numbers have been steadily climbing over the last year when we thought we’d plateaued. So that ending of those benefits on March 1 really impacted things negatively for a lot of families,” Valerie Lindsay with the San Antonio Food Bank said.
The food bank serves 100,000 individuals every single week, over a 29 county service area.
“One in four of those individuals are children,” Lindsay said.
The Feed SA campaign comes at the perfect time.
”(It helps) make sure that those kids have the meals that they need during the summer months,” Lindsay said.
As for Damaris, she is optimistic for this years 1 million meals goal. She says when one food drive wins, we all win.
“We call on those are businesses, individuals, faith congregations who will join us in giving food, time, money and voice, doing their own food and fun drive, volunteering with us within this campaign season. And that’s April 15th through June 15,” Fike said.
You can learn more here about the campaign by clicking here.