Help the Post Office 'Stamp Out Hunger' in Greenville County This Saturday

This Saturday, May 11, is the U.S. Postal Service’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

One in 17 students in Pickens County goes home on Friday and does not receive adequate nutrition until they return to school the following Monday, according to Feed a Child. 


“In other words, they don’t know where their next meal is coming from,” he said.

"Food insecurity" is defined as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food. In South Carolina, 18.8 percent (870,420 people) are food insecure, making South Carolina one of the worst states for security in the nation, according to statistics compiled by the nonprofit Feeding America.

Your mail carrier will be collecting canned and non-perishable foods this Saturday when your mail is delivered. You can leave a bag of food by your mailbox for pick-up.

You can donate “items like canned meats, fish, soup, bottled juice, vegetables, pasta, cereal and rice that do not require refrigeration,” according to the U.S. Postal Service. Please do not donate food in glass containers.

This is the 21st annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Since 1993, mail carriers have collected more than 1 billion pounds of food, including 70 million pounds in 2012.

For more information, you can follow @StampOutHunger, like Stamp Out Hunger on Facebook, or go to www.helpstampouthunger.com.