ATCO, New Jersey (WPVI) — “One of our goals is to make sure that food is never a reason that someone needs to give up their pet,” said Shanna Hart.
Hart, an employee and educator with the Food Bank of South Jersey, is spearheading an effort to donate the organization’s excess of animal-related items.
“We started to get in a lot of animal food in the last about two years or so and we were having a hard time moving it out,” she said. “So I became a 501 c-3 nonprofit and became an agency of the Food Bank of South Jersey.”
Using her name as inspiration, Shanna Hart created ‘Full Hart Pet Pantry.’
“In February, we had our first distribution. We had like 10 people come to that distribution,” she said. “We feed over about 250 families, we help a month at this point.”
Pet owners from up to an hour from Atco have been swinging by once per month to stock up on items …