Grand Traverse Pie Company (GTPC) will be busy all summer long baking apple pies to benefit Gleaners Community Food Bank’s Hunger Free Summer Program.

Grand Traverse Pie Company and its Detroit Metro family of Pie Shops will help to stomp out hunger this summer for youth throughout Detroit.  The newly opened Rochester Hills GTPC shop, Plymouth, Brighton, Troy, and Ann Arbor GTPC locations will donate a portion of proceeds from its Michigan Apple sales this summer season to Gleaners Community Food Bank’s Hunger Free Summer Program.  

 

During the 11-week Hunger Free Summer campaign, Gleaners will provide 2 million meals for hungry children and their families.  More than half of children rely on free and reduced-fee meals during the school year.  When school is out, families struggle to make up these meals.  The Hunger Free Summer campaign has grown steadily over its six year history.   In southeast Michigan, more than 300,000 children receive free or reduced-price meals during the school year. When school is out, these children are at risk of missing meals, depriving them of the 

nutrition they need to grow healthy and strong.  One in four children lives in poverty.  

 

Founders of GTP Mike and Denise Busley recognize that hungry children get sick more often, do more poorly in school and achieve less success in life than their well-nourished peers. Underfed kids are less likely to graduate high school and go to college.   “These facts alone gave us every reason to help,” stated Mike Busley.   “These  children are our future and have every right to be feed nutritiously each day”. 

 

“Grand Traverse Pie Company was born and raised in Michigan and we are very committed to helping  youth and families be as strong as possible.  When we realized that there are children, helped by the school lunch programs during the school year, in need during the summer we were very anxious to get involved.  We are very impressed with Gleaners and all that they do to distribute food to children during the summer and immediately joined in to support their efforts as well as other pantries that have similar initiatives throughout the state.  We are thankful to our loyal customers who helped by purchasing treats all summer to help make these donations possible with people working together!”  Busley went on to say.

 

Hunger Free Summer is an effort to make up that gap: Every summer, the campaign has raised more than 2 million meals for children at risk of hunger in southeast Michigan.  The campaign runs every summer starting the minute school lets out,  this year the program will begin on  June 15th and will conclude on Labor Day  in September.   

 

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