In partnership with Land O’Frost and MANNA Food Bank, ABYSA will sponsor a Kick Out Hunger! Food Drive on October 21. ABYSA will collect donations of canned and shelf-stable items at John B. Lewis Soccer Complex and the Buncombe County Sports Park.

ABYSA and HFC recognize that food security is an ongoing crisis in our community, and hope that our families can join this effort to Kick out Hunger! We believe that this cooperative project helps us meet our mission to “Empower children, strengthen families, and enrich our community through soccer, the world’s game.”
 

As a family company, Land O’Frost sees great importance in keeping our communities and their families healthy and active. That’s why they devised the Land O’Frost Youth Sports Initiative in 2003, which provides funds to help cover costs associated with organizing and operating youth sports organizations. Through that program, Land O’Frost has been a partner with ABYSA since 2011.
 

MANNA Food Bank collects, stores, warehouses, and distributes food to dedicated, accredited nonprofit partners throughout 16 counties in Western North Carolina, including the Qualla Boundary. MANNA regularly provides emergency food support to more than 100,000 people every month through these food distribution efforts. MANNA’s mission is to involve, educate, and unite people in the work of ending hunger in Western North Carolina, and its vision is a hunger-free WNC.

 MANNA also happily accepts non-food personal care & hygiene items such as shampoo/conditioner, soap (hand and body), deodorant, oral care products, menstrual care products, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning/sanitation products, etc. These items are always in high demand throughout our partner agency network.