THE SOCIETY OF SAINT ANDREW INC
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Mission Statement
Gleaning America's fields to feed America's hungry
About This Cause
The Society of St. Andrew helps feed the hungry through our cost-effective and efficient programs: The Gleaning Network and The Potato & Produce Project. Our Gleaning Programs address preventing food waste and feeding the hungry in two ways. In each, SoSA gathers up food that would otherwise be wasted. This fresh and nutritious food is then provided, at no cost, to food banks, pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other hunger relief programs. First, we address food waste in the fields. SoSA mobilizes 30,000 to 40,000 volunteers each year to glean fields and orchards for remaining fruits and vegetables. Volunteers from all faith groups, civic organizations, schools, and universities gather food remaining after the harvest. Last year, our Gleaning Network collected more than 23 million pounds. Second, we address food waste at packing houses. Food that is surplus, inconvenient size, or cosmetically imperfect, is transported by SoSA to agencies that feed the hungry. Otherwise, this food would have been shipped to a landfill as waste. Our Potato and Produce Project rescued almost 10 million pounds of this food in 2013. Our Gleaning Programs have proven extremely successful and efficient at providing nutritious food to those who need it most.