Midwest Food Bank Florida Prepares To Donate 2,000 Holiday Meals

Press release from Midwest Food Bank - Florida:

Dec. 3, 2020

Joined by several Fort Myers Rotary club members, Midwest Food Bank, Florida division is preparing for the Holiday season, and is focused on providing families with a festive holiday meal.

On Saturday, December 5, Rotary members will volunteer at our Fort Myers warehouse to assist in the packaging of the holiday meal boxes. Our goal is to pack and donate over 2,000 boxes. In addition to a ham or a chicken, each family will receive a holiday box containing side items such as mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, green beans, fruit, and apple pie. The boxes will also contain snack bars, cereal cups, cookies, cheezit snacks, and our Tender Mercies rice and beans meal.

“The Christmas season offers a time of reflection of the year past, and provides hope for the year ahead. We want to contribute to that hope by putting a full holiday meal on the table.” Says Karl Steidinger, Executive Director of Midwest Food Bank-Florida.

Midwest Food Bank has 11 locations, including nine in the U.S., and one each in East Africa and Haiti. For more information about Midwest Food Bank-Florida, please visit our website at midwestfoodbank.org

Midwest Food Bank (“MFB”) is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) charity. As a faith-based organization, it is the mission of Midwest Food Bank to share the love of Christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition locally and throughout the world and providing disaster relief; all without discrimination. Our vision is to provide industry-leading food relief to those in need while feeding them spiritually.

Midwest takes $1 and turns it into $30+ to aid hunger relief, any help we can get to create awareness of our mission and “build the gap being poverty and prosperity” would be greatly appreciated.

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