Mission: In late 2009 the Louisiana State Government cut Food Bank financing by 4.5 million dollars. As a small food pantry this blog was created to spotlight our community and show the direct effects from such a harsh budget cut.

We work at the Community Center of St Bernard, a food pantry and Community Center 10 minutes outside of New Orleans. We feed around 70 families a day and the number of new people we serve keeps growing. The spiraling economy coupled with the state budget cut to Second Harvest has created empty shelves for needy families.

More people + less food = a big problem.

Bethany Garfield

Food Pantry Coordinator

Billy Brown

Digital Arts Service Corps (AmeriCorps for Geeks)

The following organizations are all collecting food for our pantry to supplement the reduction from our local food bank. We love them!

Nola Eats at the Alternative Media Expo

Snake and Jakes

Cold Stone Creamery

Organizing for America: LA

Curves

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Food For Our Neighbors Archives

    November 13, 2009

    We need Food!

    We run a food pantry in Arabi, Louisiana just east of the Lower 9th Ward and 5 miles from the french quarter. We have recently come upon a crisis. Our pantry is in desperate need of more food. I’m tired of watching families go home with not nearly enough food to feed their families. Our main food provider, Second Harvest, lost half of their funding and our residents are suffering because of it. Hopefully this blog will be a place to spread awareness about our food problem, and a way to keep supporters in the loop of our progress fixing it. If anyone knows of any local donors, either grocers with surplus items or people willing to run their own food drives, please contact us - billy@ccstb.org

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