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The Laura Stephens Agency and Meals By Grace Initiate Charity Drive to Provide Food for Hungry Families in Forsyth County
The Laura Stephens Agency is launching a joint charity drive with Meals by Grace to provide food for the growing number of hungry families.

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The Laura Stevens Agency, a locally owned full service insurance firm with offices serving Cumming Georgia and the surrounding areas, is announcing a joint effort with Meals By Grace, a local charity that provides nutritious food to underprivileged children and families.
Meals by Grace is a non-profit ministry dedicated to assisting children and families who are without the means to feed themselves. Recent statistics report that Georgia has the nation’s fifth highest food insecurity rate, and Meals By Grace works with local schools to identify and provide for undernourished children as well as their families.
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Meals By Grace programs include a school lunch complement that improves nutrition, a food pantry that provides free and low cost meals to hungry community members, and a hot food delivery service for individuals and families that lack access to transportation.
“We are consistently impressed with the hard work and dedication of Meals By Grace volunteers,” says Laura Stephens, owner and manager of the Laura Stephens Agency. “We’re asking all the members of our community to come together and help us as we team up with Meals By Grace to provide food for hungry children.”
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Working from an extensive personal and professional contact list, Stephens and her team are creating relationships with community members, businesses, and social groups in an effort to raise awareness of the growing hunger problem Georgia is facing. Efforts are underway to build an online portal via social media that will be used to draw in even more support from surrounding communities.
In addition to assisting Meals By Grace provide food to hungry families in Cumming, the Laura Stephens Agency works with several other local charities as party of an ongoing community improvement campaign. Stephens and her team are committed to assisting at least one new local charity every sixty days in the months to come.
Readers who wish to pitch in and assist the Laura Stephens Agency and Meals By Grace as they make an effort to feed the growing population of hungry residents in Forsyth County are invited to visit the Laura Stephens Agency website and make a donation to the cause from this page: http://www.laurastephensagency.com/Fighting-Hunger-in-the-Community_20_community_cause. Readers who wish to follow the activities of the Laura Stephens Agency as they continue to assist local charities in the future are invited to bookmark their Community Causes page here: http://www.laurastephensagency.com/community-cause.
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