Between October and December, you can donate food at your local Kroger store or organize a food drive at your office, place of worship, school or neighborhood. The Food Bank will deliver supplies and arrange a pick-up of the food you collect. This annual food drive takes place during Yom Kippur when Jewish people all over the world attend services and fast for 24 hours. During this time they bring canned goods to services to donate to their local food bank. The United States Postal Service annual food drive takes place each May across the United States.
Postal Carriers encourage people along their routes to leave cans of food on their mailbox.
They are then delivered to the the Food Bank to be sorted and distributed to agencies with feeding programs. This year, Atlanta area carriers picked up over 110,000 pounds of food. In the Atlanta metro area, over 240,000 residents are struggling to survive. Only three cities in the US have more people living below poverty level than Atlanta. Your help is needed to take significant steps toward ending this problem.