AUGUSTA, Georgia (WJBF)- Golden Harvest is searching for volunteers to assist assist its inner meals applications geared toward offering simply accessible meals to kids and households.
“We common about three,200 baggage per week,” mentioned Doressa Hawes, volunteer program director.
A Feeding America research exhibits that 44 million People face meals insecurity. And Golden Harvest Meals Financial institution works throughout the CSRA to assist cut back this quantity, however with the rising demand for meals, so does the nonprofit's want for volunteers.
“We’ve got purchased the backpack program and the senior field program internally and since they’re inner, we’d like not less than 40 volunteers a day,” Hawes mentioned.
Amongst these new applications is the Backpack program that helps kids and college students have a meal outdoors of college.
“We provide non-perishable meals for youngsters to take house over the weekend. There may be one in six kids in our space who’s hungry, hungry. So we attempt to present that meals for them over the weekend,” mentioned Tiffany Matthews, little one and senior starvation specialist.
Tiffany Matthews works straight with this system and tells me the impression this initiative has on these kids.
“As a result of they usually rely upon faculty lunches and breakfasts. “So we simply attempt to assist them have meals over the weekend.”
Hawes says she is grateful to have the assistance of volunteers and hopes extra individuals will signal as much as proceed supporting kids and households throughout the CSRA.
“My coronary heart is overwhelmed, stuffed with pleasure after I see the volunteers coming to assist as a result of we all know they’re serving to us pack meals to ship house to kids who might not have meals for the weekend. It has been a assist to our neighborhood and in addition helps our seniors once they pack the senior bins. Assist those that can not exit to obtain meals of their properties…”
These volunteer days and hours are Monday by way of Friday, from 9 am to 12 pm and from 1:30 to four:00 pm. To be taught extra about volunteer alternatives, go to.