Food Pantries Stretch to Meet the Need
As the economy continues to lag, food pantries see the need go up as contributions and volunteers are harder to come by.
The biggest food pantry donations of the year have come and gone with the holidays, but the need to help feed the hungry is year-round, and in past years, growing. Hundreds of area food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens serve people directly. They get their food from various sources, and the biggest of those are the two food area food banks. Operation Food Search and The St. Louis Area Food Bank work with donors like General Mills, taking in truckloads of food, which is distributed to outlets in the metro area and beyond. Operation Food Search serves 130,000 people through 265 outlets each month, according to executive director, Sunny Schaefer. She said 30-40 percent more people are coming to them for help. “It really stated at the …
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