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April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate our volunteers for their hard work. We love showing our volunteers just how much we value them because we know their time is valuable. Efforts to feed our neighbors facing hunger would not be possible without the thousands of volunteers who give their time to sort donated food, pack Weekend Backpacks and Senior Boxes, harvest produce with Full Circle Gardens and more.

Our volunteers’ impact stretches across all 28 southwest Missouri counties in Ozarks Food Harvest’s service area. Volunteers help sort, pack and harvest more than 100,000 pounds of food every week that’s distributed to 270 faith-based and community charities across our network. Their efforts help reduce food waste and increase the amount of food on our neighbors’ tables.

“Our volunteers are some of the most incredible people I’ve ever met,” said Sarah Byrd, Ozarks Food Harvest’s volunteer program manager. “They arrive at our sessions ready and willing to do whatever is needed of them to help provide food for our neighbors in need. Our volunteers selflessly give their time, many coming to multiple sessions each month or even each week, so someone they don’t even know can have the basic comfort of food.”

Join us this April as we celebrate the volunteers who make it possible for The Food Bank to serve 70,000 people across the Ozarks each month. All month long, we’ll be making sure our volunteers feel extra special with treats, prizes and celebrations to show our gratitude.

We cannot thank our volunteers enough for the gift of time they give to help our neighbors facing hunger. Thank you for choosing to make a difference at Ozarks Food Harvest. You make it possible to Transform Hunger into Hope in southwest Missouri.