Achieva Credit Union has begun its Cereal for Summer donation drive to make sure that all children in Lee, Charlotte and Collier counties receive daily nutrition when school is out of session. Each Achieva branch across Southwest Florida is accepting healthy, dry cereal donations until May 3.

“No child should ever have to go hungry but many do once school lets out for summer as many rely on free breakfast and lunch at school,” said Achieva’s Market President, Susan Lacey. “One in five children live in homes that are food insecure – meaning they do not have enough food at times for an active, healthy life. Achieva is deeply committed to our community, and we want to do something to help alleviate some of the financial burdens many families face.”

Donations from Lee, Charlotte and Collier will be distributed to Harry Chapin Food Bank.

“Harry Chapin Food Bank is eternally grateful to Achieva Credit Union for spearheading this year’s, ‘Cereal for Summer’ Drive,” said Harry Chapin Food Bank’s Chief Development Officer Stuart Haniff. “This campaign is especially critical during the summer months ahead when our children struggle with replacing the free and reduced meals missing when school is out. Unfortunately, for them, no school often means no food. With Achieva’s generosity we are able to provide food this summer, the hungriest season of all. Because of this drive and our community working together, ‘Cereal for Summer’ will help nourish and sustain our kids now and during the school year ahead.”

To find the closest Achieva Credit Union branch to you, visit achievacu.com/Home/Locations.

Winn-Dixie drive aids children’s hospitals

Southeastern Grocers Inc., parent company and home of Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, is partnering with eight children’s hospitals across the Southeast to raise essential funds for pediatric health care provided to local children every day.

Now through April 30, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie customers are encouraged to donate $1, $5 or round up their total grocery bill while shopping at their neighborhood stores to support their local children’s hospital. Donations will aid each facility’s specialty programs, including family centered support, therapeutic activities, research, child advocacy, pediatric cancer and additional programs that contribute to the recovery of young patients.

Funds collected during SEG’s community donation program will be donated to the following eight children’s hospitals to support their specialized care and emergency services:

• Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida (Fort Myers)

• Wolfson Children’s Hospital (Jacksonville)

• Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children (Orlando)

• Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (St. Petersburg)

• Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (Miami)

• Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart (Pensacola)

• Children’s of Alabama (Birmingham, Alabama)

• Ochsner Children’s Hospital (New Orleans)

SEG has raised more than $1.1 million for its local children’s hospital partners since the program’s inception in 2021, and the grocer remains dedicated to serving its neighbors in need across its footprint.