Fresh Summit exhibitors donate 217,667 pounds of produce to help Orange County families
Fresh Summit exhibitors donate 217,667 pounds of produce to help Orange County families
Following the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit Convention & Expo held Oct. 17-19 in Anaheim, CA, exhibitors donated 217,667 pounds of produce to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. Over the past decade, PMA exhibitors have donated more than 2.9 million pounds of fresh produce to communities in need in the United States.
PMA Fresh Summit exhibitors donated 217,667 pounds of produce to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.More than 277,000 people in Orange County, CA, need the help of Second Harvest and its community partners to feed themselves and their families, according to a new study by Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County and Feeding America. Some of those families will benefit from the generous donation.
The fresh produce was collected from the convention center expo hall by approximately 300 volunteers from the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. The food bank is a chapter of Feeding America, a national non-profit organization that works to feed more than 37 million people a year.
"Feeding America is extremely grateful to PMA’s exhibitors who have gone to great effort to provide this generous donation of fresh produce to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County,” Bob Aiken, chief executive officer of Feeding America, said in a press release. “PMA goes to great lengths every year to rescue, package and transport a considerable amount of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables to our member food banks, so that they can be distributed to low-income Americans, who are in need of food assistance. Feeding America will provide food to 46 million Americans this year, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors.”
