Food bank

Introduction Agua Rio Food Bank was started in 1993 in Desertcity, a city in the western part of Arizona, it was founded to collect and distribute food, that would bring some hunger relief to the city. The food pantries in the city were receiving food from people’s donations, food drives, or from a food bank located in the central part of the state. There was a need for a more local food bank to supply the pantries and various church organizations. In addition, there were many food stores under development

Last week I worked at the Gallatin Valley Food Bank both within the garden and the warehouse. I always water the food bank’s garden every Monday morning, but last week I also spent an afternoon weeding the garden. I plan to spend a day each of the coming weeks in the garden weeding. Last week, I sent an email to HRDC requesting more volunteer options and the opportunity to shadow someone for a day, but I have yet to hear back. HRDC is a non-profit community action agency in Bozeman which offers

I interviewed Steven ___ the case manager of the food bank. His job involves helping stocking the shelves, help preparing the bags of food that clients get, and he enters the clients who the food bank has helped into computers. This is done so they cannot get more food then allowed and to keep track of how many people the food bank is helping. When asked about if the food bank provides the same services as advertised on its mission statement. He responded " we provide the exact services we say.

Houston Food Bank, knocking out hunger, one mouth at a time! The Houston Food Bank (HFB), their mission, “leading the fight against hunger” their vision is “food access for all”. The Houston food bank is a member of the nations largest non-governmental, domestic hunger relief organization Feeding America. In the fiscal year of 2013-2014, HFB distributed 59 million nutritious meal food and other necessities.” The vision for the future is to expand services to the community to 100,000,000 nutritious

According to Kansas food bank website the Kansas Food Bank collects and distributes donated and low-cost nutritious food to more than 500 hunger relief partners in its 85-county service area. Hunger-relief partners include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and the Food4Kids backpack program, Kids Kitchens after-school meal program and senior box programs. In addition, the Food Bank takes a leadership role in identifying and addressing hunger needs affecting Kansans. Each week KFB provide a

considered food insecure, so you don’t have enough food to create the energy needed to focus on school meaning that you could get held back. Think about this 16 million children are considered food insecure just in America. In Buncombe county 34,340 people are food insecure. Many people confuse hunger and food insecurity as the same thing however the are not. A person can be hungry because they didn’t eat breakfast, but someone who is food insecure doesn’t have access to enough healthy food. One local

All Faiths Food Bank is an organization that collects food products from many donation sources and distributes them to local people that are in need. The organization moves the food through its 20,000 square foot warehouse, off Fruitville Road in Sarasota (A). After the food is properly inspected, it is then distributed to, currently 184, Sarasota and DeSoto County agencies and outpost centers, such as mobile pantries at community centers and churches (A). Those that are deemed financially eligible

The East Texas Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger relief organization based in Tyler, Texas. The East Texas Food Bank serves children, families and seniors through out network of Partner Agencies. Additionally, we target specific demographics such as children for our BackPack, Kids Cafe and Summer Food Programs. Seniors are targeted through our Senior Box Program. Our Priority Population are those who are deemed the “working poor”. This mean they are working, however they still can not meet all obligations

During my second week of my community health hours, I was placed at River City Food Bank. River City Food Bank’s main goal is to lessen hunger in the Sacramento region by offering healthy food and assistance to vulnerable populations. They do not only provide healthy food but they also provide nutrition education and counseling. In addition, they provide diapers for babies and the older population. They also provide health services for mothers and assist them with contraceptives and other important

I have done many service opportunities this year. I have repaired bikes, sorted food, organized supplies, and helped victims of the flood. Though these experiences, I have learned how to serve Jesus through others. I have served Jesus though repairing bikes for the poor. It helped me understand the importance of transportation in people's lives. Sometimes a person's only way of getting to vital destinations such as the doctor, the grocery store, school, their job, or home is by bike, because they