| Scouting For Food Week March 13 -
20, 2004
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March - Scouting for
Food Drive
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Provides Food for Our Needy
Neighbors.
Many organizations conduct food drives in November and
December and fill the shelves of local food banks. We
time our collection to the early Spring when food bank’s
are running low on stocks and our help is needed the
most. The basic concept of this annual Scouting
community service project is to have our Scouts contact
residents throughout their neighborhoods, requesting
food donations to feed the hungry. Most units have found
it to be much more effective to conduct this drive
door-to-door or in front of stores, rather than leaving
bags on doorsteps and returning a week later to pick
them up. Having a Scout appear in uniform asking
residents to help the needy is a positive experience for
both the Scout and for the donor.
HOW YOUR UNIT CAN PARTICIPATE
Your district’s Scouting for Food Chair will make a
brief presentation to unit leaders at the January or
February leader’s Roundtable. These are the basic steps
to ensure success in helping your community’s needy
families:
Step One: Select an area to canvass for food
donations and then register that area on the master map
at your district’s February leader’s Roundtable meeting.
This registration helps to cover your district’s service
area and to avoid overlap.
Step Two: Unit leaders decide when your unit will
solicit food donations at a time convenient to you. Do
it on a weekend, on your den meeting night, pack, troop,
crew or ship meeting night or at any time that works
with your schedule.
Step Three: Assign neighborhoods to your scouts
and conduct the drive. Some units take the same
neighborhoods they cover for Christmas tree recycling.
Use any bags available to you.
Step Four: Deliver the donated food to one of your
county food banks during their open hours or by special
arrangement. See the list provided by your District’s
Scouting for Food Chair.
Last Step: After the drive, inform the district
of an approximate number of containers of food collected
so it can be reported to the Council and then to the
Region.
If your unit is not able to participate in this service
project during the suggested March 13-20 Scouting for
Food Week, you may contact your local food bank to
arrange for an alternate date that better meets their
needs.
Suggested donation items:
Nonperishable foodstuffs like canned fruits, vegetables,
soup, stew, meats and sauces. Breakfast foods, pasta,
rice and beans, peanut butter, desserts, cooking oil,
condiments, juices, powdered or canned milk, pancake mix
etc. We try to avoid glass containers. |
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