It’s Time to Bag Hunger in Clark County.
This year’s Walk and Knock Food Drive will be December 5, 2009. Every little bit helps!
“For 24 years, the Inter-Service Walk and Knock Food Drive in Clark County, Washington has come to the aid of the community. Every year on the first Saturday in December, thousands of volunteers from all over the county go walking and knocking, collecting non-perishable foods. In 2008 the effort collected just over 141 tons of food and over $35,000 of which 100% will be used to purchase additional food. All volunteers are unpaid and all food stays in Clark County!
The Walk and Knock Food Drive encompasses the entire Clark County area. Volunteers come from local church groups, high school clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire, and several other organizations, as well as hundreds of other individuals who answer the call for help. Members from local non-profit organizations and other community leaders head up the various staging sites. Volunteers gather together Saturday morning and begin their routes at 9am. By 4pm the food laden trucks head to the Port of Vancouver where space in a warehouse is donated to store and sort the food. By the end of the following week, the food is distributed out to the food banks where it is needed.”
Visit Walk and Knock for more information, including how it all got started with just two guys who “got this crazy idea to do this big food drive.”
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