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The SLHS PTSA Food Pantry is available for students and families in the SLHS Pyramid.

• A place where students in the South Lakes High School Pyramid can “shop” for food and toiletries
• Designed to help close the hunger and nutrition gap for the 30% of SLHS students who are on free and reduced lunch (approximately 730 students)
• Distribution focuses on weekends and summer
• Since April 2017 distributed 38,000 bags of food and toiletries (sending home more than 3,000 items per week)
• Weekly orders rapidly increasing from 30 students/week at launch to 150/week and still growing
• 360,000+ items collected from the community to distribute to students and families

Want to Get Involved?

• Donate food and toiletries
• Save the Date for our annual Do It Your Way 0.5k on October 17, 2021
• Volunteer (see News You Choose)
• Provide monetary donations and we’ll do the shopping for you.  Checks payable to SLHS PTSA are also accepted (please write Food Pantry on the memo line and mail to SLHS PTSA Food Pantry, 11400 South Lakes Drive, Reston, VA 20191)
• Collect needed pantry items at your next event (birthday party, sporting or arts, scouting event . . . the options are endless)

Contact pantry@southlakesptsa.org for more information
Items we need the most

• Toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, soap, maxi pads, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant)
• Canned goods (peanut butter, jelly, beans, tomatoes/sauce, applesauce, chili, veggies, tuna/canned meat)
• Box/Dry goods (crackers, cereal, pasta, rice, lentils, boxed milk)
• Cooking oil
• Laundry detergent, dish soap

Need to shop the Pantry?

•   Just ask or email any of your teachers or school counselor and they will help you get started, It’s really that simple!!

Pantry Website

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