A counselor helps a student in need select food at the A. Brian Merry Elementary School Market. The food pantry is part of Golden Harvest’s new focus in schools. Students can choose from shelves of nutritious food items and bring home food for the whole family. In an empty room lined with cupboards at the end of a hallway in A. Brian Merry Elementary, school counselor Stephanie Mack gets to work. She opens hanging cupboards lined with macaroni and cheese, canned chicken and sliced peaches. She arranges cans of chicken noodles soup, jars of peanut butter and [...]

Volunteer Antonio Jones serves the noontime meal at The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen. His experience of being homeless led him to want to help others who are struggling with hunger and homelessness. Three years ago, Antonio Jones was in a tough spot in Charleston, S.C. “All I had was a truck – a Chevy S10 - and I was sleeping at the park, going to the nearest gas station, washing up and going to work the next day,” Jones says. Back then he struggled; he didn’t know food banks like Golden Harvest or soup kitchens like The [...]

The staff of HisWay Food Pantry and Dana Barksdale of Food Lion smile in front of newly stocked food pantry shelves. The pantry won a Great Pantry Makeover from the Food Lion Feeds foundation. HisWay Food Pantry opened early one Monday morning in October for a special delivery. Volunteers unloaded 80 cases of nonperishable food items outside the pantry at Calvary Temple Assembly of God. Boxes of oatmeal, bags of flour, jars of jam, cans of vegetables and other pantry staples quickly filled the empty shelves. “This will probably last us two weeks,” said food bank director [...]

Jacquelyn loads bags filled with fresh produce, healthy shelf-stable food and frozen meat into her car at the SmartBox food pantry in Fairfax, S.C. Phyllis Smart gives the largest room of the building at Hampton Avenue and 6th Street in Fairfax, S.C., a last once over. A row of tables runs down the center, and volunteers begin to open 50-pound bags of potatoes, pull apples from boxes and stack frozen chicken livers on carts. They’re almost ready to serve up to 200 people at the SmartBox’s biweekly distribution, supplied by Golden Harvest Food Bank. They’re right on [...]