Wine, Women and Shoes event helps to feed children in need in Charlotte

For many children in the Charlotte-area, the risk of hunger goes up on the weekends because there’s no guaranteed breakfast or lunch like there is on school days.

Second Harvest Food Bank visits Highland Renaissance Academy each month to give free food their families through a mobile pantry program.

Principal Shalan Fry clearly remembers the first time she volunteered with the mobile pantry.

“I was really amazed at the number of parents we had. I think we served almost 200 families that night,” Fry said.

Second Harvest gives students backpacks full of food on Fridays to take home for the weekend.

“The teachers will tell us, had it not been for that backpack, those kids may not have eaten that weekend,” Second Harvest CEO Kay Carter, said.

Carter said last year the organization distributed more than 152,000 backpacks of food to low-income schools.

Second Harvest buys all of the food for the mobile pantry and backpacks with money raised at the Wine, Women and Shoes event.

“It’s meant to be a fun event for you to come out and bring your girlfriends and drink some wine, who doesn’t love that, look at some shoes, who doesn’t love that,” Carter said.

“If you’re able to go to the event and support the work that Second Harvest does, by all means do it, because your time, your effort, your money does not go unnoticed,” Fry said.

Channel 9's Stephanie Maxwell will be emceeing the Wine, Women and Shoes event. It's Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m.

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