Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour

Helps purchase nearly $5,000 in items for local food pantries

The Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger, which has raised and distributed more than $5.9 million to help end hunger in Maine since 1990, again partnered with Brenda Davis, one of the state’s leading ending hunger advocates and director of BBC Opportunity Center an Old Town-based hunger agency that serves thousands of Maine people, to cover the state of Maine on foot to raise awareness about the problem of hunger in Maine.

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WALKING TO END HUNGER — As part of the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger Walking Tour, Brenda Davis, left, one of the state’s leading end hunger advocates, stopped at Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union branches in Dover-Foxcroft, Greenville and Guilford as a food pantry in each community received a contribution from Maine’s credit unions. Pictured with Davis is Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union President/CEO Rhonda Taylor.

Recently, the tour made three stops in Piscataquis County, including Dover-Foxcroft, Greenville and Guilford. The Maine Cus’ Campaign for Ending Hunger presented checks to a food pantry in each community. The contributions will enable all three organizations to collectively purchase nearly $5,000 worth of food and supplies at the Good Shepherd Food Bank.

The 14th annual Maine Credit Unions’ Ending Hunger Walking Tour is the largest yet with the tour visiting a record-setting 87 communities during the month-long walk. Maine credit unions made a contribution to a food pantry in each community it visited.

Davis traveled throughout the state, 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. Davis visited food pantries, hunger organizations and credit unions in each town she walked in. At each credit union, Davis picked up a contribution from the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger as a way to support her cause. Overall, the campaign contributions will help food pantries throughout Maine purchase nearly $125,000 worth of food to feed Maine’s hungry.

Since 1990, the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger has raised over $5.9 million to help end hunger in Maine including a record-setting $552,000 in 2014. To make a tax-deductible contribution, please visit www.mainecul.org or stop by a local credit union.