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HELP FEED THOSE IN NEED

It's easy to help more families have a holiday meal this year by donating to the 15th Annual Share Your Holiday Food & Donations Drive for Harvest Hope Food Bank.

Here’s how:

  • Share Your Holiday 
  • Wednesday, December 4 
  • 6:00 AM to 7:30 PM:

Bring your donations to 

  • First Baptist Church and Palmetto Citizens in downtown Columbia
  • Palmetto Citizens Lexington office location on North Lake Drive.

You can just drive up to the drop-off location and a volunteer will assist you with your donation.

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And know that your generosity helps in a million ways:
  • Harvest Hope distributed over 28 million pounds of food last year.
  • They feed approximately 38,000 hungry people a week.
  • They are able to distribute 5 meals with each $1 donation.
  • A $15 donation will feed a family for a week.
  • $30 will feed a child for one month through their BackPack Program.
  • 98¢ of every $1 directly provides services for hungry people in SC.

Palmetto Citizens is proud to serve again as a lead sponsor of this important community event. For more information on Harvest Hope Food Bank, please visit their website.

 

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