Yes! We found some FOOD!

Scouting for Food results in a VAN LOAD of food donated to the NFCC's Food Bank!!

Great job to all our scouts who participated and to the Amana Academy community!!

Scouting for food always starts the same way. A scout goes door to door in their community to distribute plastic bags and notes about the project. Sometimes neighbors will give food right away - as soon as you knock on the door.  Others will wait until the following Saturday to place a bag or box of food on their door step.  Sometimes very few neighbors participate.  What's important here is that our Scouts and their siblings are improving their public speaking skills, DOING A GOOD TURN in the community, and learning about Hunger in America.

Jaden affixes a note to the door.

Siblings are welcome to  help!

People even leave us encouraging notes!

We asked our school to help out! They sure did!! 

After collecting food door-to-door and from our school community, scouts have the task to consolidate these donations into a single Pack 285 delivery. A family usually waits in the Amana Academy parking lot to gather all the food.  This year the Boyd family ate McDonald's for breakfast and collected the arriving donations.

For the last two years the Blalock family has used their van to transport the donations from the drop-off point in the school parking lot to the Food Bank at North Fulton Community Charities.  We filled the van again.  Two years!!!  Way to go Pack 285!!

Then the Blalocks roll all the food - one wagon and cart load at a time - into the Food Bank. Melissa maintains a list of all the scouts who participated and submits the list to NFCC for patches.  These patches will be distributed at the next Pack Meeting!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED MAKE SCOUTING FOR FOOD A GREAT SUCCESS!