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Meals and Food Support - How to Give
Some food banks in the USA:
Some helpful resources, and we want to offer you
The federal food assistance program, SNAP, sometimes also called Food Stamps, is available to low-income households to encourage healthy food choices. We have developed a new guide aimed at educating senior citizens about the benefits of this great program. Thank you to Kayley Brooks | Outreach Coordinator at Retire Guide for providing the information about SNAP.
Please feel free to visit our Food Stamps for Seniors guide at
https://www.retireguide.com/social-security/benefits/food-stamps-for-seniors/
Guide to Meals on Wheels, which is another great meal program for seniors, in case you find it useful for your community as well:
https://www.retireguide.com/retirement-life-leisure/senior-housing/aging-in-place/meals-on-wheels/
His Compassion: Ocala, FL. Our Mission - Your support is what makes HIS Compassion successful. There are many ways you can contribute and help. Whether it is donating food, money, time or your voice, there are many ways to support HIS Compassion. Learn more about how you can get involved and do something good.
East Spring Branch Food Pantry: Houston, Texas. Our Mission - To provide food free of cost to families in urgent need, who reside in zip codes 77024, 77040, 77041, 77043, 77055, 77080, 77091 or 77092; the pantry offers these services without regard to a person’s race, religion or national origin.
Blessings in a Backpack: This organization helps feeds school children across the US, and is partnering with districts that have summer feeding programs to extend services while schools are shut down.
Convoy of Hope: Delivering meals through partners, churches and community organizations across the US. They have delivered 150 million meals and counting in response to the pandemic.
Feeding America: With a network of 200 food banks across the US, this organization is helping food banks support communities impacted by the pandemic.
FoodCorps: Working with school districts to ensure school meal sites can feed students who are out of school as well as their families.
GENYOUth: They are providing grants to schools to supply resources for meal distribution and delivery so students can be fed even when they are not at school during the coronavirus crisis.
Meals on Wheels: Provides home delivery of food to seniors who find themselves more isolated than usual.
Mercy Chefs has partnered with their food distributors to give free grocery meal boxes across Oklahoma, the Panhandle of Florida and Puerto Rico.. The non-profit is also sending recipes, strategies and protocols to volunteers, who will then package and distribute meals in their communities.
Operation Blessing is sending PPE to hospitals, providing hand washing stations in places like Honduras, Peru, and Kenya and distributing sanitizing kits in the U.S.
Save the Children: On the ground in 87 countries, the charity is distributing hygiene kits, educating communities about the coronavirus, delivering nourishing meals to children who can no longer rely on school for food and supporting teachers who are holding virtual classes.
United Way: They are using their Covid-19 Community Response and Recovery Fund to support communities around the world, helping people most in need access food, shelter, vital information and more, through local United Ways and the 211 network (in the U.S.).
WhyHunger: Created a Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund to help the food insecure and launched a crowd sourced map to connect individuals with free meal sites, in the U.S. and some communities around the world.
World Central Kitchen has provided more than 30 million meals in more than 400 cities so far. The charity is also partnering with restaurants to provide jobs for their staff.
How to help in your community
Food Pantries.org: Use this national database to locate food pantries in local communities that you can contribute to.
Little Free Pantry: This organization is standing ready across the US, giving 24-hour neighborhood access to food and other necessities.