Holiday Giving Helps AMEN Serve Over 1,100 Individuals in December

AMEN wants to thank all in the community who provided food assistance for the month of December. This would include all that are provided monetary donations, food drives, and the special giving during the holiday period. All your gifts gave many gifts of food during the holiday period.

A recap for the month provides the following statistics. 368 families were served, which represented 1104 individuals served.

Donated food was 15,538 The number of volunteers was 225 for a total of 991 hours. The impact of your generous donations provided this need. The Amen board and volunteers say thank you. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 571 La Grange, Texas 78945. Also you can go to our website www.amenlagrange. org and make a donation thru the link provided.

AMEN has discontinued using harmful individual use plastic bags for food selections. Reusable bags, boxes, or other containers will be used which will reduce the environmental impact in Fayette County. The only exception is for meat products; plastic will be used.

The impact has prevented 13,908 plastic bags that have not been sent to the landfill. Thank you to clients who bring their reusable bags. The average is about two thousand bags per month.

AMEN wants to become greener and reduce the number of plastic bags used to accommodate shopping. We are asking the community if they have any reuseable shopping bags to donate to the pantry. The bags can be dropped on Monday and/or Thursday during business hours.

The panty is open to provide products from Monday 9 a.m. - noon and open on Thursday for drop off 10 a.m.12 noon.