Manna And Rotary Team Up To Fight Hunger

February 26, 2018

Over 300 Rotary Club members helped Manna Food Pantries create 65,000 meals Saturday for those that are in need.

The Rotary Against Hunger is a project of the Combined Rotary Clubs of Pensacola (CROP) launched in 2012.

Volunteers packed nutritious lentil casserole packets. CROP’s donation will provide much needed food to those in need. According to Manna Executive Director DeDe Flounlacker, the project has become a critical part of their ability to meet the needs of the hungry throughout the year in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

“The Rotary Against Hunger project provides much-needed food during winter and early spring when donations are always low, and need is always high,” said Flounlacker. “Last year, Manna provided food assistance to 20,269 people; 42% were children under the age of 18. These are your neighbors and mine — folks who are the working poor, grandparents raising their grandchildren, moms and dads who do not have enough money to pay their bills and buy food for their family. Thanks to Rotary, thousands of people will be helped this year through this gift of nutritious food.”

Since the first year of the Rotary Against Hunger Project, CROP has packed well over a half million meals for the hungry.

“This will be the seventh year that Rotary has teamed up with Manna, ensuring that these meals will be distributed in a manner that will serve the needs of many families in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties,” said Ed Carson, Rotary Against Hunger Project Chair. “Through this project, Rotary is striving to exemplify Service Above Self, the Rotary motto.”

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  1. Grand Locust on February 26th, 2018 11:11 pm

    Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. ~Psalms 85:10-11

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