Run for the Hancock County Food Pantry

Run for Hancock County Food Pantry on September 30th, 2023 @ 8:00 AM- this is a FREE 5k run/walk social run that starts and ends at the Mockingbird. Please bring food donations including pasta, cereal, crackers, rice, peanut butter, jelly, soups, canned vegetables, and dog/cat food or cash donations as your registration fee. This event is co-sponsored with our friends at Mockingbird Cafe and benefits our friends at the Hancock County Food Pantry! All participants with a donation will receive a free mimosa or juice after the run/walk.

The Hancock County Food Pantry is an all volunteer agency with no paid staff. They have been serving low income families living in Hancock County, MS for more than 37 years.  Over 50 volunteers staff their warehouse and offices. They have intake clerks who record who the head of household is and how many members they have in their family. Warehouse workers pack groceries and deliver them to the client. The Food Pantry purchases non-perishable food from local merchants and also receives USDA food from the MS TEFAP program, donated food from the community and recovered food from one retail grocer and two nearby military commissaries and redistributes all of this food at no cost to families in need.