Left to Right: Mary Louise Resch, Government Relations and Grants Manager at the Harvest Hope Food Bank and Jake Harper, Assistant Manager of the Pioneer Credit Company West Colombia, SC branch.
On April 28th, a representative from Pioneer Credit presented the Harvest Hope Food Bank a check for $1,500. Beginning in 1981 as an emergency food box program, Harvest Hope Food Bank is now a regional distribution program that collects, stores and distributes food and related items to more than 450 non-profit agencies engaged in feeding needy, elderly and ill families and children throughout central South Carolina. They sponsor a senior food program, a mobile food pantry, and a nutrition education program! Last year they donated 28 million pounds of food across 20 counties in South Carolina. That’s approximately feeding 38,000 people a week! Harvest Hope also serves as South Carolina’s primary disaster hunger relief emergency feeding organization and provides food in case of a natural or manmade disaster.