FOOD Share's Mobile Pantry Joins Santa Paula Boys & Girls Club Birthday Celebration, Aug. 28

    SANTA PAULA, CA, August 23, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- On Friday, Aug. 28, the FOOD Share & Friends mobile pantry will visit the Santa Paula Boys & Girls Club to help host its August "Birthday Club" celebration. FOOD Share and Friends will contribute to the birthday festivities with a nutrition lesson, cooking demonstration, food samples, produce distribution and a special birthday treat. About 90 children are expected to participate.

The FOOD Share & Friends mobile pantry was designed as a moving community center to connect friends in need who lack access to food pantries or other vital resources to the variety of services and support FOOD Share and its collaborators offer. It provides a traveling source of information and links neighborhoods to nutrition education programs, health services, financial literacy programs, employment/income assistance programs, and housing resources.

"The mobile pantry has given us the ability to do so much more to impact communities across Ventura County," explains Bonnie Atmore, president and CEO of FOOD Share. "We're very excited for the opportunity to engage and educate the youth of Santa Paula and to help make the day a special experience for them."

The FOOD Share and Friends Mobile Pantry was made possible through a partnership with the Port of Hueneme and Wells Fargo.

FOOD Share and Friends/Santa Clarita Boys & Girls Club Birthday Celebration Details
Who: FOOD Share & Friends Mobile Pantry and the Santa Paula Boys & Girls Club
What: Celebration of August birthdays with nutrition lesson, cooking demo, produce distribution, and more.
When: Friday, August 28th, 2015, 4pm-5:30pm
Where: Santa Paula Boys & Girls Club, 1400 E. Harvard Blvd., Santa Paula, CA 93060
Please note, this event is closed to the public but members of the media are invited to attend.

About FOOD Share:
More than 35 years ago, eight citizens performed a good deed by distributing food to those who were in need underneath a Ventura bridge. The early philanthropic movement quickly formed into what is now Ventura County's regional food bank, FOOD Share, which has grown from serving a few hundred hungry people per month to 74,500 people. Today, staff and volunteers distribute more than 12 million pounds of food annually from two warehouses; more than 180 partner agencies, which include neighborhood and church food distributions and soup kitchens; as well as hunger assistance programs. FOOD Share's programs provide healthy nutrition and education to children, families and seniors, and include: Kids' Farmers Market, SENIOR Share, nutrition education, Community Market, SoCal Gas CARE Program and more. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, FOOD Share is a member of the Feeding America network, the nation's largest hunger-relief organization. For more information about FOOD Share, visit http://www.foodshare.com. Find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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