Need for Food Pantry Stretches Out to the Suburbs
Posted by GSDispatch Editor in Community, GSD Online, source: FOX4KC
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO – A new national study from a hunger advocacy group reports that nearly one out of every eight people in the U.S. now rely on food assistance programs, and here in the metro that means that food pantries have had to open in places that they’ve never been before, like a middle school in Lee’s Summit.
According to the group “Feeding America,” 37 million Americans are now on some sort of food assistance program.
“It’s at shocking levels, that right here in our community there’s about 295,000 people within a year that need food assistance,” said Karen Haren, president and CEO of Harvesters.
That means that the super-sized pantry at Harvesters has never been more busy, but the reach of the need has stretched all the way to Bernard Campbell Middle School in Lee’s Summit…
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