As food insecurity throughout Cook County remains elevated, there’s a new way to support the mission to end hunger. Throughout the month of March, Walmart and Sam’s Club Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign enables you to help provide neighbors the food they need to thrive.
The campaign runs in stores and online from March 1-31, with three easy ways for shoppers to participate:
- Donate at check-out in stores or round up at Walmart.com and the Walmart app.
- Purchase participating products in-store or online at Walmart.com or SamsClub.com.
- Donate at Feeding America’s Fight Hunger. Spark Change. campaign donation site at either FeedingAmerica.org/Walmart or FeedingAmerica.org/SamsClub.
Since its inception in 2014, the campaign has generated more than $206 million for the Feeding America network of local food banks, including the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
While Fight Hunger. Spark Change. is a national campaign, purchases and donations are tied to zip codes and go to the food bank in that community, meaning your donations stay local and help people in our community.
Jennifer Cortes selects fresh produce to help feed her two sons. Photo by Nancy Stone for the Food Depository.
This support helps neighbors like Jennifer Cortes, 31, a single mom of two sons, ages 3 and 7. Though she works fulltime at a hotel, affording food for two growing boys, who she says are always hungry, is a challenge.
“The price of groceries is high. By the end of the month, even with budgeting everything, there’s not enough,” Cortes said as she visited a Food Depository partner pantry in Tinley Park. “It means a lot to get this food.”
This year marks 20 years of partnership between Feeding America, Walmart and Sam’s Club. During this time, the partnership has generated approximately $271 million and nearly 9 billion pounds of donated food to the Feeding America network of local food banks. The Food Depository is grateful for partners like these – and their generous shoppers – in the mission to end hunger.
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