As part of the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger Walking Tour, Brenda Davis, at right, one of the state’s leading end hunger advocates, makes a stop at University Credit Union’s Farmington branch. There to greet Davis was the CU’s Erika Taylor. The stop was one of three in Franklin County. The Campaign also made a contribution to food pantries in each community.
FARMINGTON - In a partnership with Maine Credit Unions' Campaign for Ending Hunger, one of the state’s leading advocates made stops in Franklin County and collected contributions for local food pantries to purchase nearly $3,500 worth of food and supplies.
Brenda Davis, a leading ending hunger advocate and director of BBC Opportunity Center, an Old Town-based hunger agency that serves thousands of Maine people, is walking across the state to raise awareness about the problem of hunger in Maine.
Recently, her tour made stops in the Franklin County towns of Farmington, Jay, and Kingfield. As part of the tour’s mission of making an impact in each community it visits, the Maine Cus’ Campaign for Ending Hunger also presented a check to a food pantry. Collectively, the contributions will enable the local food pantries to purchase nearly $3,500 worth of food and supplies at Good Shepherd Food Bank.
The 15th Annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour is the largest yet with the Walk visiting a record-setting 90 communities during the month-long tour. Maine’s credit unions will again make a contribution to a food pantry in each community it visits.
During the walk, Davis, also executive director of Cross Roads Ministries of Old Town, is traveling from Madawaska to Kittery focusing attention on the severity that hunger exists in Maine, with 15 percent of Maine’s population identified as food insecure.
Along the way, she is visiting food pantries, hunger organizations and credit unions in each town she visits. At each credit union, Davis is picking up a contribution from the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger as a way to support her cause. Overall, the Campaign’s contributions will help food pantries throughout Maine purchase nearly $150,000 worth of food to feed Maine’s hungry.
She began her month-long journey on Friday, Oct. 21, in Augusta. The walk is expected to encompass between 750-800 miles on foot and will conclude with a special ceremony in Bangor on Monday, Nov. 21.
Since 1990, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger has raised over $6.5 million to help end hunger in Maine including a record-setting $623,000 in 2015. To make a tax-deductible contribution to the Campaign, please visit www.mainecul.org., or stop by a local credit union.
