On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a group of Seacoast restaurants is pitching in to send much-needed funds for hunger relief to the Gulf Coast.

Lindbergh’s Crossing, Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Café, Radici, the Portsmouth Brewery, the Blue Mermaid, The Dunaway and Dos Amigos’ Burritos in Portsmouth; Robert’s Maine Grill, Bob’s Clam Hut and Anneke Jans in Kittery; and Dos Amigos’ Burritos in Dover are among the restaurants donating part of their proceeds to Share Our Strength’s “Restaurants for Relief 2,” on Tuesday, Aug. 29.

The program is a national dine-out promotion that will mobilize thousands of restaurants on one day and engage diners across the country. Funds raised will go to Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger and to help families in the Gulf Coast region by rebuilding school cafeterias, opening summer food programs and providing needed assistance to affected restaurant workers.

“As chefs and restaurateurs, we are asked to participate in fundraisers dozens of times per week, and we rarely have the opportunity to understand the impact of the dollars we help to raise,” said Share Our Strength Seacoast co-chairperson Jay McSharry in a press release. “But our donations here have already helped subsidize transportation and housing for restaurant workers and helped the broader community by funding feeding programs and rebuilding schools.”

Organizers of the event are also hoping to highlight the struggles still facing the community. Only 40 percent of the New Orleans’ pre-Katrina population has been able to return, leaving 175,809 public school students displaced and 360,000 Louisiana citizens estimated still to be displaced outside of the state, according to the Share Our Strength Web site.

Any restaurant may participate by signing up at www.strength.org. Updates of participating restaurants will also be posted on the site. 

Last October’s Restaurants for Relief effort raised more than $1.2 million and allowed Share Our Strength to give more than $200,000 to initiatives that supported affected restaurant and hospitality workers.