Manna FoodBank - Community Service Project

In December 2007 EPS partnered with Manna FoodBank and Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity for a day of service in Asheville, NC. Manna FoodBank, founded in 1982, is a private, non-profit service organization in the work of ending hunger in Western North Carolina. Manna provides hungry men, women, and children in Western NC with over 13,000 meals per day, 365 days a year. During the morning of December 3rd, 2007 EPS employees volunteered at Manna FoodBank all morning packing boxes full of dry, non-perishable food items for their agencies to distribute food across WNC. We worked tirelessly for almost 3 hours and managed to feed hundreds of families with our efforts alone.

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1983, is dedicated to changing the lives of families living in inadequate housing by building simple, decent houses for families in need. In order to fund this effort, the Asheville Habitat has operated a retail store since 1990 where they sell donated items to the general public. In the afternoon of December 3rd, EPS employees volunteered their time and energy to help organize and clean out the Christmas section of the storage room at the home store. We spent hours putting together Christmas trees, sorting trinkets, ornaments, and gifts to be placed on sale to the general public. Normally, there is one volunteer who is in charge of the overwhelming job of Christmas inventory, but EPS stepped up to the plate and took care of this normally daunting task!

More photos from EPS community service projects can be seen here.