How does the food collected reach people who are hungry?
Oregon Food Bank distributes food collected through food drives to a network of hunger-relief agencies such as Salvation Army, Outside In, St. Vincent de Paul, FISH Emergency Services and Blazers Boys and Girls Club. The agencies include pantries that distribute emergency food boxes, soup kitchens, shelters and other helping agencies. An emergency food box provides a three-to-five-day supply of food for a family. Last year, an average of 240,000 people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash. ate meals from emergency food boxes each month. Of those, 36 percent are children.
