By Joy Winheim | Executive Director
Francis House opened our food panrty in 2007 with the intent to be a supplemental food pantry for the few clients that we served each day. As we have quickly gone through the last eight years, we have become so much more than that.
In 2014, our very small food pantry distibuted over $27,000 worth of food and hygiene products to over 300 unduplicated households. We have become so much more than a supplemental pantry. We have become their sole food source. That is a lot of pressure on a tiny pantry.
We maximize every dollar that comes our way by shopping at our local Feeding America Food Bank and we get our hygiene products from the dollar store. Our budget is small and our funding is never gauranteed.
I have included pictures in this project report, something I don't normally do because of the confidentiality of the clients that utilize it. Today was different, yesterda we went shopping. We got everything that was available to us at the food bank and put it on our shelves. We tried to cover each and every shelf. We failed. We failed to obtain healthy, nutritious food. We are limited to what is available to us. The pictures included represent $133 worth of food.
We are grateful for the assistance we have recieved and hope to fill each and every shelf in the future.
By Joy Winheim | Executive Director
By Joy Winheim | Executive Director
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