GROVER BEACH, Calif. -- A longtime Grover Beach nutrient pantry is providing much-needed assistance to radical successful request who unrecorded successful the Five Cities area.
For 49 years, the Five Cities Christian Women person operated a nutrient pantry, helping retired assemblage members that are battling nutrient insecurity.
The nutrient pantry has moved astir done the years, but presently is located astatine 946 Rockaway Ave, Grover Beach and is unfastened Monday done Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
"This is work for the community," said Marlene Jeung, Five Cities Christian Women Co-President. "We're supported by 17 churches and work organizations, truthful it's a full assemblage effort to support this pantry going."
According to Jeung, the pantry serves astir 35 radical each day, totalling much 150 families each week.
Clients are allowed to prime up nutrient erstwhile a week and are fixed an array of items, including caller fruits and vegetables, positive a container of groceries that usually includes a twelve eggs, margarine, pasta, soup, and different items.
"They get america through," said lawsuit Rita Kisar. "We hardly bargain immoderate groceries. I mean, they person saved us. My member and I are some so, truthful grateful. It's helping america survive. We're really surviving by the assistance they springiness us."
The nutrient pantry is 1 of dozens of spouse agencies that enactment successful coordination with SLO Food Bank to assistance combat nutrient insecurity.
"The SLO Food Bank's mission is to genuinely alleviate though a network of assemblage partners, and truthful we person 3 main ways that we administer nutrient successful our bureau partners, which is simply a web of implicit 85 nonprofits successful the region are genuinely what let america to service and scope the astir radical successful need," said Branna Still, SLO Food Bank Development Director. "Five Cities Christian Women is an astonishing enactment that runs an astonishing panty operation, their volunteers are fantastic, and they let america to truly further assistance that unrecorded successful the Five Cities area."
Food Bank clients, including those who usage the Five Cities Christian Women Food Pantry, are capable to person vacation repast items done the News Channel 12 Turkey Drive.
Still said this year's fundraiser is adjacent much impactful owed to a fig of fiscal hardships that are greatly stretching pocketbooks.
"We are each feeling the inflation," said Still. "Turkey prices are done the roof. You mates that with an summation successful rent, an summation successful substance and vigor prices, and present you person a existent dilemma, and truthful galore of america tin observe the vacation season, but immoderate of america are not truthful lucky, and truthful erstwhile you enactment the SLO Food Bank and the News Channel 12 Turkey Drive, you're allowing america to sprea
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Turkey Drive volition clasp 4 donation sites wherever the nationalist tin donate a turkey, non-perishable food, oregon fiscal contributions.
Donations collected successful San Luis Obispo County, astatine California Fresh Market successful Pismo Beach, Albertsons successful Paso Robles and SLO Food Bank will straight assistance SLO Food Bank Clients.
Those collected successful Santa Barbara County volition straight payment Good Samaritan clients, arsenic good arsenic different section non-profit organizations.
Santa Barbara County locations for the Turkey Drive volition beryllium the News Channel 12 Santa Maria office, arsenic good arsenic Grocery Outlet Bargain Market successful Lompoc.
On-site donations volition beryllium accepted from 6 a.m. to 7 pm.
Financial donations tin beryllium made anytime by visiting the Turkey Drive website. Donors tin take to lend to either Good Samaritan oregon SLO Food Bank.
For much accusation astir the News Channel 12 Turkey Drive, oregon to donate, click here.
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