YSU Partners With Food Bank To Pack Food Boxes

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley will be partnering with YSU faculty, staff and student volunteers to pack boxes of food Saturday.

Packing will be from noon to 2 p.m. at the food bank at 2805 Salt Springs Road.

Second Harvest is a member of Feeding America, a nation-wide network of 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people. Its mission is to solicit, store and distribute food to hunger-relief organizations feeding people in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties, and to provide education and advocacy. 

YSU faculty, staff and student volunteers will be joining along in their mission by volunteering to pack boxes of food for low-income senior citizens in the Mahoning Valley. 

Second Harvest Food Bank has regularly scheduled mobile pantry distributions and works with a network of more than 160 hunger-relief programs in the tri-county area, including church pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens, shelters for battered women and after-school programs that serve families, children and seniors at risk of going hungry. 

In 2021, it distributed 10.6 million pounds of food (of those 2.8 million pounds were fruits and vegetables) and filled 12,000 requests for food each week. 

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