The Kellam Knights Marching Band and cheerleaders and students from Granby High School will greet the delivery truck's arrival around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Foodbank officials say there are more than 250,00 people considered hungry in localities it serves, including Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, Virginia Beach and Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight and Accomack counties.  Of those receiving assistance, 32% are under the age of 18.

The students helped staff unload the meat at the foodbank at 800 Tidewater Drive. In all, there are 964.86 pounds of tightly-rolled flour tortilla with a diced chicken meat & cheese food fill and 28,800 pounds of uncooked, original chicken tenderloin fritters, all in family-sized packaging.

"This load will feed 23,438 people," said Foodbank Chief Development Officer for the Foodbank Marianne F. Smith.

The food will benefit the community’s hungry and will be calculated toward each schools effort in the first annual Student Food Drive.

Smith added, “It is a fun and creative way to get youth involved and create awareness of the needs of the hungry in our region as well as providing leadership training for the leaders of tomorrow.” 

44 Hampton Roads high schools are competing in the event to raise at least 50,000 pounds of food.

The students, with the help of a faculty advisor, plan school events and contests to promote the food drive, organize their food collection, as well as package and deliver the food to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Foodbank on the Eastern Shore.