Food For Friends: In Partnership with Agape
October 27, 2023
Help GSSC and Agape make a difference and work together to fight hunger.
NOVEMBER 18 - JANUARY 31
Over 70,000 children on Long Island live with hunger and food insecurity. Agape Meals for Kids gives backpacks with food to children who are in need. Every Friday, they are given this backpack filled with comfort after school with 7 easy-to-make meals and snacks. After all, Agápē means unconditional love.
Girl Scouts & Troops can collect necessary food items to drop-off at our 3 office locations Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Commack, Bayport, and Riverhead) You’ll receive a special patch bracelet for your donation. Our offices will be closed between December 25 to January 5. We will re-open on Monday, January 8.
Items Needed:
- Canned chicken and tuna (These may also come in pouches.)
- Stacked cracker packs for the chicken and tuna.
- Individual cereal and oatmeal cups or packets.
- Unsweetened applesauce cups and fruit cups.
- Shelf-stable yogurt pouches
- Canned soups, mostly Campbell'schicken noodle soups
- Precooked pasta pouches (For children living in shelters where there is no access to a cooktop)
- Pasta boxes for those children whose families have a cooktop.
- Canned pasta sauce, no glass.
- Peanut butter, sun butter, and squeezable jelly.
- Canned vegetables
- Canned beans as well as 1 lb. bags of dried beans, black, kidney, and pinto.
- Rice: both regular 1 lb. bag and precooked rice packets.
- Shelf stable milk
- YUP milk vanilla and chocolate
- We do collect pancake & waffle 'complete' for Thanksgiving breakfast and long holidays along with plastic syrup bottles.
- Granola bars, cereal bars, and pretzel pouches.
Girl Scout Informational Flyer
Questions? Email customercare@gssc.us
Learn more about Agape Meal For Kids at www.agapemealsforkids.org
