MATA volunteers, donates to food banks across Missouri

The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys is launching a “food bank tour of Missouri” this week, volunteering and donating more than $50,000 to Feeding America food banks across the state.

The group’s first stop will be Wednesday in Springfield at Ozarks Food Harvest, concluding with a stop in Kansas City Thursday, Nov. 13.

Other stops are the Central Missouri Food Bank in Columbia Monday, Nov. 10, and the Southeast Missouri Food bank in Sikeston Wednesday, Nov. 12. MATA members and staff will deliver a check and work a food bank shift at each stop. $8,000 will be given to Ozarks Food Harvest, $7,500 will be donated to Central Missouri Food Bank, $7,000 will be donated to the Southeast Missouri Food Bank and $10,000 will be given to Harvesters.

An additional $7,500 will be donated to the St. Louis Area Food Bank.

MATA’s “food bank tour of Missouri” is an effort by its charitable arm, Missouri Trial Lawyers Care (Mo-TLC).

“We were planning to do our usual work days and deliver checks, but with the impending loss of SNAP benefits and so many federal workers going without pay, we decided to pretty much empty our Mo-TLC coffers and do as much as we possibly can right now,” stated MATA President Randy Alberhasky in a press release.

The food banks are members of the Feeding America Network and serve as an umbrella organization for hundreds of nonprofits.

 “The food banks serve literally hundreds of thousands of Missouri citizens,” stated Alberhasky, “and we expect their needs to grow with unprecedented demands in the next couple of months. We wanted to do our part to help, pure and simple.”