The largest hunger relief origination in Maine now has in its hands, the final part of a $100,000 promise of support.
The donation comes from the Maine Credit Union League who promised in 2016 to provide the food bank with $100,000. Today the MCUL presented a check for $33,000 at the George J. Mitchell Elementary School in Waterville. The Good Shepherd Food Bank donates goods to the school’s food pantry.
At an assembly Wednesday morning, students in the school shared essays in front of their classmates about what the school’s food pantry means to them.
“To hear from students who are seeing it in their classmates and some of them likely experiencing themselves, I think that really hits home,” said Ethan Minton, the Good Shepherd Major Gift Officer.
The George J. Mitchell school food pantry has received more 60,000 meals worth of food from Good Shepherd since 2013.
“It helps highlight how much of a community effort this is and how aware people are of the hunger problem in the state of Maine and what people can do to help alleviate that problem,” said Tim Brooks, the Vice President of Corporate Marketing for the Maine Credit Union League.
The MCUL’s Campaign for Ending Hunger has raised over $8 million since starting the program in 1990. In 2017, the credit union raised $740,000 for the cause.