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• Need for Emergency Food Assistance Spans Zip Codes

  While poverty was a challenge before the call to wear masks and keep safe distancing, its most noticeable symptom, food insecurity, has harshly emerged in almost every income level due to the pandemic. Case in point: Kim Smith is an administrative assistant at FedEx. While she has not lost her job so far, her husband’s employer sliced his hours starting a month ago. The couple, who tend to their grandchildren, Kadien, 8, and Jacob, 6, have lost $4,000 in monthly income, she said. They...

  Friday, May 1, 2020 | Posted by Andrew Bell

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• Friends Get Help Together at Mobile Pantry

  Extra Porter and her friend Fred Lenoir heard about the food available at the emergency Mobile Pantry distribution at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church. The two retired seniors arrived together in separate cars at the East Memphis church’s parking lot on a Friday morning when the very last of the allotment of food was waiting for them. Both received bags of apples and spinach and more. Both planned to share the food with neighbors. “For myself, I just moved into an apartment and I ...

  Tuesday, April 7, 2020 | Posted by Andrew Bell

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• Disabled Veteran Finds Food and Hope at St. Michael's Pantry

  Michael Kuykendall, 64, is a disabled Vietnam veteran living with his service dog, Kelo. Recently, caretaker Linda O'Hara escorted him to the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, at St. Michael Catholic Church, to help him receive some much-needed food recently. Kuykendall said it has been 10 years since a life-threatening incident altered his life. He was standing under a tree in South Memphis when lightning struck the ground nearby. "There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The lightni...

  Tuesday, March 3, 2020 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• MealConnect A New Tool to Get Fresh Prepared Food to Pantries

  MealConnect A New Tool to Get Fresh Prepared Food to Pantries Volunteers in the kitchen at St. Vincent DePaul Food Mission were busy organizing and refrigerating 48 large trays filled with cooked food Oct. 21st, a Monday. The supplemental, prepared food arrived from volunteers who picked up the excess food from the weekend’s two-day Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms Park. The food, ranging from fried chicken, to burgers, to bacon, to country ham is “fantastic,” said St...

  Wednesday, January 29, 2020 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• Food Pantry Boosts One Client’s Independence, Despite Disability

  Using his walker, Rickey Murrell treks several blocks from his home near the University of Memphis to get his rolling basket filled with needed food at the food pantry at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. He lost his sight about 17 years ago, but he’s not lost his laugh, vitality or self-reliance. “It’s part of my routine, coming here,” the 61-year old former landscaper said. “The food is good – I especially like the snacks and meats.” He is...

  Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• BackPack Boxes Provide Food, Stress Relief in Orange Mound

  Hanley Elementary faculty have long recognized that too many of its students were coming to the Orange Mound area school from homes where food insecurity pervades. The issue was a real-life problem beyond nutrition, affecting students’ inability to focus on studies and creating some behavioral issues in the classroom.  “It really hurt the staff and me when we would hear a student come to school on Monday saying he or she didn’t get enough to eat over the weekend,&...

  Friday, October 25, 2019 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• Retired Couple Helps the Pantry that Helps Them

  Flat Rock Food Pantry helps a lot of people Barbara and Randy Lollar know in Benton County, Mississippi. "The food really helps us and other people on fixed incomes," Randy said. The couple – he's 70 and she's 69 – are retired. They moved to Flat Rock three years ago and learned about the Matthew 25/Flat Rock Food Pantry Ministry, which really helped when their daughter and her four children moved in for several months. "The Pantry helped tremendously beca...

  Thursday, October 3, 2019 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• Donation A Key Assistance for Delta Families

  Another August means another substantial food donation from Tyson Foods for struggling households in several Mississippi Delta counties, thanks to coordinated efforts again from Miss. U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson’s office in Washington, D.C. On Aug. 7th, Tyson truck driver Mendez Arnold wheeled the 18-wheeler full of chicken products – totaling 36,000 lbs.– from Russellville, Ark., onto the Tunica County G W Henderson Senior Rec Center parking lot. It’s the 1...

  Thursday, August 15, 2019 | Posted by Britney McGhee

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• Dyer County Residents Respond to Help Feed Neighbors

  Thanks to a $25,000 grant from Tyson Foods, Mid-South Food Bank held, with critical help from volunteers, a Mobile Pantry food distribution on April 29th in Newbern, Tennessee. Boxes full of fruit, meats, vegetables and bakery items totaling over 10,000 lbs. were provided for residents of Dyer County, including employees of the local Tyson Foods plant. It was the first of monthly distributions for a year. The first one helped 252 households, while the future ones could help up to 300 in a co...

  Thursday, May 2, 2019 | Posted by Andrew Bell

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• Mobile Pantry Boosts Clients' Help in Fulton, Miss.

  When First United Methodist Church’s Food Pantry coordinators in Fulton, Mississippi, were presented with the opportunity to host a Mobile Pantry distribution, they said yes - with smiles. The Partner Agency’s volunteers knew how significant the extra food would mean to the 400 households who arrived early for the distribution on March 22. The food insecurity rate in Itawamba County is 14 percent. Its residents describe the small community as one that’s divided by the Tenne...

  Monday, April 1, 2019 | Posted by Andrew Bell

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