AMEN Served 281 Families in October

AMEN appreciates all in the community that provided food assistance for the month of October. This would include all that provided monetary donations, food drives and the AMEN Gardens.

A recap for the month provides the following statistics. 281 families were served, which represented 864 individuals served.

Donated food was 8,493 pounds. The number of volunteers was 181 for a total of 669 hours.

The impact of generous donations provided this need. The AMEN board and volunteers appreciate all the donations. Monetary donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 571, La Grange, Texas 78945. Also you can go to www.amenlagrange.org and make a donation through 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 9,498 plastic bags that have not been sent to the landfill. The average is about 2,000 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 pantry is open to provide products from Monday 9 a.m. until noon and open on Thursday for drop off 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.