Wal-Mart Paper Towels Sales Help South Texas Food Bank
7/13/2011 12:00:00 AM by Salo Otero
The South Texas Food Bank has become part of a Texas Food Bank Network partnership with Wal-Mart and the store’s sale of a certain brand of paper towels.
Texas Food Bank Network (TFBN) director of food resources Lee Pipkin announced at July monthly South Texas Food Bank board meeting at Commerce Bank that Wal-Mart will donate a percentage of proceeds to the Texas Food Bank Network from the sale of the eight-pack Orchid Paper Company towels. The South Texas Food Bank is one of 19 in the Texas Food Bank Network. The paper towel package has the food bank logos and a Good 4 Texas brand.
Pipkin, visiting the South Texas Food Bank along with TFBN directorBarbara Anderson, was introduced to the board by STFB executive director Alfonso Casso, Jr. Pipkin noted that a similar partnership with Orchid and Wal-Mart raised $500,000 for food banks in Oklahoma. “All money is for childhood hunger,” Pipkin said. “That’s one in four children in Texas.” Displaying a paper towel package he purchased at a Laredo Wal-Mart, Pipkin said, “This could be worth a lot of money to hungry children in Texas. Look for it at all your Wal-Mart’s and encourage people to buy the product by getting the word out.”
Casso reported to the board that the South Texas Food Bank distributed 637,755 pounds of product in June to bring the year’s total to 4,888,523 (4.8 million) pounds. The amount at this time last year was 4.9 million pounds. Through May, STFB has served 115,092 families, including 99,111 children, 188,182 adults and 292,068 meals.
Program numbers for the month: 933 families in adopt a family with 445 on waiting list. 6,983 elderly served through Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) with 525 on waiting list. SNAP Outreach processed 445 applications representing 586 adults and 583 children. The year’s total are 2,421 applications representing 3,279 adults and 3,300 children; and 13 Kids Cafes served 14,007 after school meals for the month, averaging 667 per day.
“Your numbers are great,” Texas Food Bank Network’s Anderson commented. “You’re feeding the hungry.”
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