Nearly 400 Chicopee families in need pick up food distributed at the Boys and Girls Club

Feed the Children campaign has teamed up with price wght and the boys and girls club to hand out $150,000 worth of supplies to food insecure families in chickpea 22 news reporter Melissa Torres gives us a closer look at today's food drive campaign well Price Right is kicking off its annual feeding minds and bodies campaign to help combat food insecurity and promote healthy childhood development over 400 families were able to receive several pounds of food and daily Essentials today for the last 10 years price write and Feed the Children have partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of chipi to provide food and Essentials to families experiencing food insecurity working with Feed the Children and and the boys and girls club is just another step of you know people going over and above to uh donate Foods right to give to you know these people who really are in need in the city of chicke over 60 2 200 kids go to bed hungry every night that's a large number and it's 11% of the population in chapi is struggling so we're here today to help sure make sure that they get enough food just to last them through a couple of weeks and they won't have to worry for for that for that amount of time over 400 food insecure families will be receiving a 25 lb box of food 15 lb box of hygiene Essentials as well as a school backpack full of supplies for the upcoming school year the families that were pre-identify ified by the Boys and Girls Club of chape were also able to receive Supermarket gift cards as well as hygiene products not covered by SNAP benefits and there's about 20 meals in each of those boxes and then we're giving out personal care items which they can't buy with their SNAP benefits so that's another big bonus for them to be able to stretch their dollar families who rely on free and reduced price lunches during the school year struggle with providing meals for their children during the summer in an effort to help these families this program host drives from May through the fall to make sure no child goes to bed hungry since the two organizations first began working together back in 2015 more than 40,000 families have received the fresh fruit vegetables and groceries they need to nurse their families working for you Melisa Torres 22 News