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.
The following organizations are all collecting food for our pantry to supplement the reduction from our local food bank. We love them!
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I was happily surprised when I got an e-mail newsletter from MoveOn.org asking for donations for the organization Feeding America. Feeding America feeds into our local food bank Second Harvest of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana which supplies our food pantry with food. Its great to see such a large and influential organization like MoveOn supporting our nation’s food pantries.
