Hunger Doesn’t Take A Summer Break What do you remember about your childhood summers? Perhaps it was a family trip to the beach, playing outside in the sun with your siblings, or going to cookouts with family and friends. For many of us, summertime brings fun, excitement, and adventures. But for many kids in our …
Making A Difference Together When it comes to helping others, there’s no task too challenging for Willie and Jeri. The couple has been volunteering with the Food Bank for over 10 years, and have done everything from folding thousands of letters for a mailing campaign to helping pack food on a hot summer day. Willie …
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Fighting Hunger Together This summer, the Food Bank partnered with First West Baptist Church in West Monroe and the Boys & Girls Club of North Louisiana to help feed children and families in Ouachita Parish. Members from First West wanted to help serve children struggling with hunger during school breaks, so they contacted the Food …
Your Support Will Feed Kids this Summer Summer is here, and that means many children are enjoying their favorite summer activities like swimming, riding bikes, and enjoying delicious cookouts with family and friends. But when schools shut their doors for the summer, thousands of our local kids who depend on the free school meal program …
Feeding Families in Lincoln Parish With your support, the Food Bank serves thousands of our neighbors facing hunger in Lincoln Parish each month. At one of our recent mobile pantries in Ruston, we met Natasha, a mother of two who has been unable to work recently due to a health condition. She says with the …
A Very Kind Donation KIND, a company with a mission “to make the world a healthier and kinder place,” made a donation of 150,000 KIND Bars. These bars are being provided to children, families and seniors who face hunger in our area. “We are so thankful that KIND has made such a wonderful donation to …
New Tensas Parish Mobile Pantry About 20 percent of our neighbors living in Tensas Parish may face hunger in 2021. According to recent estimates from Feeding America, 36% of children there may live in households that experience food insecurity. Thanks to community support, the Food Bank was able to provide about 32,000 meals to children, …
Serving Through a Year of the Unexpected… As I write this, it has been one year since our world changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time last year, we were watching the news and beginning to make changes in our lives for what we thought would be a few months. At the Food …
Your Donations Help Our Neighbors Make Ends Meet We met Brenda at one of our drive-thru distributions in Ouachita Parish. She had arrived bright and early that morning, and was visiting with people in the neighboring cars while they waited. Brenda, a 58-year-old grandmother of 11, lives off of a small salary from babysitting. She …
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