Uniting to Combat Hunger Food Drive
In honor of Veterans Day and to help support military families and veterans, VFW, Humana, and Feeding San Diego partnered to launch the “Uniting to Combat Hunger Food Drive” across San Diego County.
It ran from Monday, October 30, through Thursday, November 30, 2023.
After a successful community rally to collect food donations at local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) posts across the county, the inaugural Uniting to Combat Hunger Food Drive culminated in a donation of over 12,000 pounds of food to benefit Feeding San Diego. The food collected will support military families and veterans in bringing meals home through Feeding San Diego’s Feeding Heroes initiative. Feeding San Diego works with a network of partners that serve the military community to provide nutritious meals to active-duty military families and veterans. According to Feeding America, in 2020, nearly a quarter (24%) of active-duty service members experienced food insecurity, and 1 in 9 working-age veterans live in food insecure households.
Beyond addressing hunger, the food drive also helped raise funds for local VFW posts to help with the preservation, repair, and replacement of VFW post equipment. For every pound of food collected for Feeding San Diego by participating VFW posts, the VFW Foundation with Humana donated $1 to the post, up to $1,500 per post (a minimum of 500 pounds of food needed be collected by the post in order to qualify).
Feeding San Diego’s Most Needed Food Items included:
- Peanut Butter
- Pantry Staples
- Ready-To-Eat Meals
- Soup
No glass containers, please.
How it Worked
This campaign raised funds for participating VFW posts and food for Feeding San Diego.
Participating locations are pinned below and in this handy shared map.
The food drive concluded on November 30.
