Help Obie & Ashley and K92.3 pack the pantries of over 65+ Central Florida schools!
During the summer months, local school children from the ages of 5-18 are able to access these pantries who otherwise may not know where their next meal is coming from. These pantries are also stocked throughout the school year from donations like yours. The children and families who access these pantries are identified by their own teachers and administrators throughout the school year. Help us make a difference and join Obie & Ashley’s Pack the Pantry today! The Love Pantry is the official organization associated with our partnership who is headed up by local volunteers throughout the school year to make sure these pantries stay stocked.
To add more urgency to this campaign, Slater just found out he is getting CANNED!
He'll be at Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves Thursday 6/13 at 6AM living in a giant trash can until 10,000 cans are collected! Jeez... good luck Slater 😬 Watch him live below:
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Drop Off Locations:
Join K92.3 Wednesday June 12th at Central Florida Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram (8675 Commodity Cir, Orlando, FL 32819) from 11A-1P for a private performance by Cale Dodds and have your shot at winning $1,000 cash! Register your name here! We'll be accepting non-perishables during this time as well!
[ Full list of non-perishables can be found here! ]
Thank you to our partners for their contributions to this campaign!
ABOUT LOVE PANTRY:
Children who are hungry can’t learn. It’s that simple. The Love Pantry exists to remove hunger as a barrier to learning, thereby giving today’s youth a better chance to succeed. Each participating Love Pantry school is provided with a cabinet stocked with 23 common food items and 8 basic hygiene items, and restocked weekly by school district-approved volunteers throughout the semester. The Love Pantry equips those closest to the students, the teachers and counselors, to identify hunger and provide students with food at no cost to the school or families. Also, each Love Pantry contains community resource information, all designed to move parents and families toward longer-term solutions.
One of the three programs of the Christian Service Center, the Love Pantry began in 2011 in just 13 schools and now is in 67 public schools throughout Orange and Seminole County, distributing to-date 788,333 meals to 153,137 household members of which 97,259 were children. Last year (in 2018), the Love Pantry distributed 98,138 food items and 1,533 hygiene packs to impact the lives of 22,760 household members of which 14,302 were children, thanks in part to volunteer drivers who donated 850 hours to help the Love Pantry remove hunger in our schools.
Since 1971, the Christian Service Center has brought hope to neighbors in need by combating hunger, poverty, and preventing homelessness. For our struggling neighbors in Central Florida that we don’t see at our doors, the Love Pantry was created to reach into schools with a realistic solution to child hunger and food insecurity while directing families to additional community resources for longer-term solutions.