Boy Scouts gather food for local food banks

Boy Scouts from Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties gather food door to door for local food banks

More than 20,000 Central Florida Boy Scouts will be sorting and packing food collected during their annual Scouting for Food campaign, the largest one day food drive in Central Florida. Scouts can earn a special patch for collecting 50 pounds of food or more on.

Boy Scouts and volunteers in seven Central Florida counties hung a plastic grocery bag on the front door of 700,000 homes throughout many neighborhoods. They will return to pick up the filled bags on Saturday, November 14th and take them to local Winn-Dixie stores that are serving as food collection sites. The food is then sorted by local volunteers and loaded onto trucks for distribution through Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and other area food pantries in local communities.

Scouting for Food is the largest service project conducted by the Boy Scouts of America in Central Florida. Scouting for Food collections will provide more than 430,000 meals for Central Florida families in need during the critical holiday season when many children and adults will go hungry. For some food pantries, Scouting for Food is the primary source of their food stock from November through March.

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