PHOTO: Sterling and Amber Marchand's four children hold food the family has collected for their Be The Good Project.
"Our laundry room is now mini fridge land, we store the nonperishables in our living room and we have two additional full-size fridges that we've added to our garage," said Marchand. "It has definitely infiltrated [our house], but the neat part is our children, who are fairly young, really do understand what's happening.
Through their nonprofit, the Marchands continue to donate between 500 and 600 pounds of food per week to local families, schools and nonprofit organizations. "It has gone from a black box we picked up at a hardware store [for collecting donated food], to we have delivered more than 30,000 pounds of food in less than a year and more than 48,000 sandwiches to Martha's Table," said Marchand. "The numbers, even to us, they still sound astounding."
I like that family and their neighbors. People helping people. Wonderful.