SMECO recently helped fight hunger in the region by supporting the Southern Maryland Food Bank. Through donations of food and cash by its employees, the cooperative was able to stock the charity’s shelves with more than 3,100 pounds of food. The donations will enable the food bank to feed more than 140 families. The Southern Maryland Food Bank, a branch of Catholic Charities, has been working for more than 40 years to alleviate hunger. Besides offering a local food pantry, the organization also maintains a community learning garden and delivers healthy groceries to at-risk children and senior citizens. SMECO employees hold a food drive for the Food Bank each summer. This year’s drive collected more than 1,800 pounds of food, and purchases with donated money brought the total to more than 3,100 pounds. “The donation of food from SMECO came in at a time when the 35 church pantries that we support on a weekly basis are running low on food resources to meet their clients’ needs,” said George Mattingly, project director for the Southern Maryland Food Bank. According to Mattingly, donations during the summer are very low, resulting in pantries using the costly alternative of purchasing food at wholesale […]
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