Highlights
- More than 5,000 Arizona mail carriers will collect canned food along their regular routes on May 9.
- The 34th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is the nation's largest single-day food collection.
- The drive typically brings in about 1 million pounds of food for Arizona families.
- One in five Arizonans and one in four children face hunger, according to St. Mary's Food Bank.
More than 5,000 Arizona mail carriers will collect canned food donations along their regular routes Saturday, May 9, as part of the 34th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive — the nation's largest single-day food collection, according to KTAR.
The drive typically brings in about 1 million pounds of food for Arizona families. Donations are distributed to St. Mary's Food Bank, United Food Bank, St. Vincent de Paul, Desert Mission, Valley View, and other food banks across the Valley.
Organizers flagged the timing as critical: demand spikes through the summer when children are out of school and seasonal donations drop off. St. Mary's Food Bank distributes more than 100,000 food boxes each month to over 700 agency partners, and reports that one in five Arizonans — and one in four children — face hunger.
Mail carriers are dropping off reminder postcards and grocery bags to homes along their routes this week. Residents should leave nonperishables — canned fruit and vegetables, soups, canned meals, pasta, peanut butter, tuna, rice, and cereal — by their mailboxes before carriers arrive Saturday.
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