Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As we find our way into communities throughout our 24 county service region, we first want to thank each of you who have emailed, called, donated, and volunteered. Without a strong network of both individual and corporate partners, this work would be much more difficult. We shared earlier in the week that throughout our 24 county service region, our partner agencies are now seeing and dealing with the disasterous effects of Hurricane Helene. Our region has in the past been spared from the effects of storms and flooding and has always been the one helping our neighboring food banks along the coasts of both NC and SC.
Helene is a different situation. We have multiple counties we serve in both Carolinas with significant numbers of our neighbors still without electricity and many without water. Communities in Rutherford County where the beautiful towns of Lake Lure and Chimney Rock have been destroyed. As our partner emergency pantries are able to connect with us we are hearing that they will need a variety of things to get through this crisis.
Moving forward, this page is going to serve as our relief effort updates for you to follow our work and what you are helping us do for our neighbors in need.
Please consider making an emergency gift that will enable us to pack the tens of thousands of emergency food boxes that will be needed to assist our counties and our neighboring food banks. Our donors know we will pack every day for as long as it takes to weather this storm together.
If you would like to donate food and/or other items to be loaded onto our box trucks and tractor trailers for an organized delivery to our partner organizations, like Manna Food Bank, click here for our most needed items shopping list.
We are so grateful for your support.