17 Year Old Tega Cay Resident Organizes Food Drive For The Fort Mill Care Center

Fort Mill High School Senior Abby Lewis organized the Food For Thought Summer Food Drive this weekend in Tega Cay, SC.? Abby, with he help of many volunteers, delivered 3,265 pounds of donated food to the Fort Mill Care Center today.

Abby was born and raised in Tega Cay and will be attending Fort Mill High School as a senior in the fall. When asked why she decided to organize her food drive she said she just wanted to do something good for local residents this summer.? Abby told us this was not part of? a service project for a class or group, just a personal goal to give back to her community.

Abby got the idea for the food drive after reading a story about a Denver Colorado teenager organizing his own successful food and clothing donation drive.

Abby’s Food Drive began last weekend when her team of volunteers delivered almost 3,000 donated shopping bags and flyiers to Tega Cay residents. Her flyer asked residents to fill the bag with non perishable food and place the bag on their door step for pick up by 8am Saturday morning July 24th. A team of volunteers were assigned 22 pick up routes in Tega Cay and the bags were then loaded in a donated U haul for delivery to the Fort Mill Care Center.

The Fort Mill Care Center said receiving 3,265 pounds of food at one time in the slower summer months was a blessing and thanked Abby for all of her and her volunteers hard work.

Below was Abby’s message to Tega Cay Residents on The Food Drive flyer:

During the summer months is when local food pantries are in need of food donations the most. When school is out, hungry children no longer have free and reduced school lunches to rely on as their primary meal of the day. Children and? teens need food to help them grow and thrive. My mission is to help these children in? our community by hosting a food drive, here in Tega Cay, to benefit the Fort Mill Care? Center. I am asking that you take this paper bag and fill it with non-perishable food? items to donate to this cause. Do not feel limited to just one bag if you would like to? donate more! We will pick up however many bags you decide to donate. Thank you? for your time, help, and generosity towards feeding the hungry! Every little bit? counts

Abby Lewis

Tega Cay Resident

Much thanks to the following local businesses for their donations to help support the Food Drive:

The Postal Route – printed the fliers
Tega Cay Self Storage? – Donated the use of U haul
Grocery Bag donations include Lowes Foods, Harris Teeter, Bloom, Wal-Mart, Bi-LO, Food Lion

Below is a list of Food Drive volunteers: