DAY OF CARING

DAY OF CARING 2020  
FOOD DRIVE & VOLUNTEERS

The Food Drive

BEING RESCHEDULED DUE TO PANDEMIC

In an effort to work together to end child hunger, United Way of Southwest Louisiana partners with the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury and City of Lake Charles Summer Feeding Programs by creating Weekend Food Packs so children in the programs have healthy and easy-to-eat foods over the weekend. United Way of Southwest Louisiana works with local companies, organizations and groups to collect food for Weekend Food Packs.

5 out of 6 children who participate in an in-school lunch program do not receive meals during the summer. Many of these same children go without food on the weekends during school. Summer can be very difficult for at-risk kids without access to school-lunch programs so Summer Feeding Programs are provided. Weekend feeding is taken up by United Way of Southwest Louisiana by providing the programs with a bag of meals and snacks that administrators can give to each child to take home on Friday.

There are many ways your business or organization can get involved with the 2019 day of caring: United Against Child Hunger. 

• Become a donation site and collect items through the month of April, 20120 
  Contact United Way of SWLA at 337.433.1088 to register your group or business!
• Set a goal for your group or business to collect one specific food item (ex: 1,000 juice boxes)
• Aim to collect enough for a certain number of Weekend Food Packs

Our goal will be that all 6,000 Weekend Food Packs be as identical as possible. Below are required items that carry and store well in the bags.

As a result of our generous donors and volunteers, we were able to send a grand total of 6,200 Weekend Food Packs to the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury and City of Lake Charles' Summer Feeding Program sites in 2018! Help us reach that goal again in 2019!

We ask that the expiration dates on all donated items be August, 2020 or later.

Single-serve, individually wrapped items only:
Bottled Water
Juice Boxes
Pre-Cooked
Pop-Top Meals
(beans & franks, beefy mac, mac n’ cheese, ravioli, spaghettios)
Vienna Sausages
Individual Peanut Butter
Granola Bars
Beef Jerky
Trail Mix
Boxes of Raisins
Sunflower Seeds
Peanuts
Individual Boxes of Cereal
Fruit Snacks
Cookies
Crackers

DROP OFFS CAN BE MADE THROUGH APRIL, 2020 AT UNITED WAY OF SWLA: 

MONDAY - THURSDAY 9 AM - 5 PM
FRIDAY 9 AM - 4 PM

DROP OFFS
United Way of SWLA
815 Ryan Street
Lake Charles, LA

DOWNLOAD A FOOD DRIVE FLYER PDF

VOLUNTEER ON DAY OF CARING!

TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Help us fill Weekend Food Packs with the collected items. 

DOWNLOAD A DAY OF CARING VOLUNTEER FLYER PDF

JOIN WITH VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

For more information, call us at (337) 433-1088