Client Story: “When you’re 62, and money is tight, you just hope you can stay...
“My biggest priority is staying well. When you’re 62, and money is tight, you just hope you can stay well enough to get by another day,” says Jean, a client of a mobile pantry served by the Community...
View ArticleFive years after Katrina
August 29 marks five years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall and devastated communities across the Gulf Coast. Within hours of the storm, Feeding America, then America’s Second Harvest, and our...
View ArticleClient Story: Pam after Hurricane Katrina
Houma, Louisiana, a town southwest of New Orleans, is the home to our next agency during our trip — the Good Samaritan Food Bank. Here we met with Pam, a client served by the Second Harvest Food Bank...
View ArticleFood is a basic human right.
Feeding America is working hard to ensure that Congress passes the Child Nutrition Bill during the Lame Duck session. To garner public support for the passage of the bill, we are featuring a series of...
View ArticleClient Story: Jessie of Mississippi
Jessie is a grandmother who grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Her life changed after she was diagnosed with both dementia and a debilitating muscular disease. No longer able to work, and unable to rely...
View ArticleClient Story: Danielle, Lillie and Alex
Over the past decade, many socio-economic factors have caused the emergence of the multi-generational home. A 2010 Pew Research Study showed that as of 2008, “16.1% of the total U.S. population, lived...
View ArticleReal Story: Rodney from Freestore Foodbank
Sarah Cook, a Public Relations Specialist with the Feeding America member Freestore Foodbank, recently reached out to us with an encouraging story. She wrote: Rodney is a Freestore Foodbank customer...
View ArticleClient Story: Momi from Las Vegas
A few years ago, Momi and his wife Nelly left Israel in search of something new. They arrived in Las Vegas, eager to build their lives in a country with boundless possibilities. Momi soon found work...
View ArticleClient Story: Allison
Allison had spent the better part of a decade volunteering at her local food pantry when she found that she needed help herself. In August 2010, her life began to rapidly change, with not a lot working...
View ArticleClient Story: Food For A Normal, Happy Holiday
Jaime shared her story with us this week in Lincoln, Nebraska. She and her four children are clients of the Food Bank of Lincoln. The holidays for me are the most stressful time of year. The weeks...
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