America’s Second Harvest is a nonprofit organization based out of the United States, reaching out to people domestically and in Puerto Rico. In the late 1960s, John van Hengel founded the nation’s first food bank: St. Mary’s in Phoenix, Arizona. It wasn’t until 2000, when America’s Second Harvest merged with Foodchain, that the name we know today was created.
Thanks to Hengel, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania is a short drive away, and is certainly worth the trip. This bank in particular, distributes to nearly 200 agencies; including food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers, and after school programs, serving 50,000 people. If you’d rather look at it in weight, that totals roughly five million pounds of food annually. Second Harvest not only provides food, but education and service programs for low-income families as well.
Help Harvest live up to their mission “to feed America’s hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage the country in the fight to end hunger.” Don’t let food go to waste. To ask questions and get involved, call 610.434.0875 or visit www.caclv.org.
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