Helping Ninjas Dylan, Skyler, Beck, Leo and Mitch of Carmel, Indiana volunteered at Second Helpings during the annual Second Helpings Food Rescue and Hunger Relief Kitchen Great Pasta Push with Channel 8 WRTV.
On average, Second Helpings uses about 1,500 pounds of pasta per week and is used to create nutritious meals for people in central Indiana who may otherwise not get a full meal today.
As the pasta drives were coming to a completion at nearby Kroger collection sites, the Second Helpings vans needed to be unloaded, our Helping Ninjas helped to unload and weigh in all of the communities’ pasta donations from the Second Helpings vans.
Second Helpings relies on pasta drives and donations to bring much needed non-perishable items to our Hunger Relief kitchen.
Second Helpings prepares and delivers more than 5,500 nutritious meals each day. Nutritious meals are distributed to shelters, senior centers, after-school programs, and also delivered to the homes of those who can’t access food any other way.
Pasta doesn’t tend to get donated through our regular sources – the shelf life is so long that wholesalers and grocery stores don’t need to move it along as quickly.
Second Helpings Gr8 Pasta Push is an annual food drive.
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A community-wide pasta and fund drive
Second Helpings and WISH-TV 8 for their seventh-annual Gr8 Pasta Push. Second Helpings uses roughly 1,500 lbs of pasta each week in the hunger relief kitchen. The first Gr8 Pasta Push was in November 2020, partially born out the basic needs exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Donations of pasta (spaghetti and macaroni preferred) as well as monetary donations appreciated.
