Category: Impact Stories

  • Food That Brings Relief

    Mary Brown helps care for her grandchildren while sharing a home with her mother, three siblings and two grandchildren. With so many people depending on the same household budget, keeping enough food on the table can be difficult.

  • Stretching a Little Food a Long Way

    When Harry Chapin Food Bank holds a food distribution in Immokalee, Debra Milton is among the neighbors who come for fresh produce, protein products and other nutritious food to bring home to their families.

  • Neighbor Spotlight: Hope Found in Immokalee

    Every Tuesday morning, Maria Perez arrives at Harry Chapin Food Bank’s mobile food distribution at Immokalee Church of the Nazarene with her service dog, Amy. For the past two years, the weekly distribution has helped Maria and her mother, who lives with her, put nutritious food on the table.

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