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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Our food pantry coordinator just told me we don’t have any canned vegetables for the next week. Its horrible when we are forced to give out gatorade and honeybuns because thats all we have to give. If you live in the New Orleans or St Bernard area please donate your canned veggies! You can drop off any food here at the Community Center or at a couple different locations in the city listed on the right side of the page.
THANK YOU!
