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How You Help Rachel’s Family Eat Healthy
(l-r) Cameron, Cody, Reese and Rachel share a moment on their front porch. Rachel suffers from an autoimmune disorder and must follow a strict diet. 3-year-old Reese bounces excitedly when she sees her favorite non-dairy yoghurt at the food pantry. Her mother Rachel smiles. “We are dairy-free, egg-free, and sugar-free,” Rachel explains, “The specialty food items that we need are not in our budget. Reese gets excited when she sees that here.” Rachel helps her 5-year-old son Cody choose a loaf of gluten-free bread from food pantry shelves. She suffers from an autoimmune disorder that requires her [...]
Edgefield Agency Feeds Kids and Seniors
(l-r) Women in Unity food pantry Volunteer Edith Callaham shares a smile with Bertha, aged 83. Bertha began visiting the food pantry for help after a severe allergic reaction left her medically fragile and struggling to make ends meet. 83-year-old Bertha’s eyes sparkle as she talks about her favorite recipe for cabbage soup. “I don’t cook by a recipe - I make my own recipes,” she says proudly. “And it tastes so good!” Bertha moved to rural South Carolina from New York two years ago to be near family after a medical emergency left her health fragile. [...]
Mobile Market Drives Away Hunger
Venicia, mother of two, receives food assistance at a Mobile Food Pantry Summer Market location. Every summer, Golden Harvest sees an increase in the number of hungry families in need of help. Summer utility bills are higher, and when children don’t receive free breakfast and lunch at school, it’s hard to make food budgets stretch. This year, the Food Bank reached out to Richmond County Schools with a new plan to help meet the need. A plan to host Golden Harvest’s Mobile Market at local schools quickly fell into place. Now, twice a week, two refrigerated box [...]
100 Hours of Spreading Joy at The Master’s Table
Volunteer Amy Gentry serves the noontime meal at The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen in downtown Augusta. Amy Gentry pulls up to The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen on Saturday morning at 8:30. Instead of enjoying a leisurely weekend morning, she ties on an apron, pulls on gloves and starts preparing the noontime meal. Amy set herself a goal of volunteering 100 hours with Golden Harvest Food Bank this year. She works at Bank of America, and once she has completed her 100 hours the company will donate to Golden Harvest through its employee matching program. For Amy, volunteering [...]
How You Helped Hazel Battle Cancer
66-year-old Hazel of Warrenton, GA receives a grocery cart full of nutritious food for the month. You can see Hazel’s zest for life clearly reflected in her bright smile, carefully applied makeup and colorful clothing. What’s harder to see is that the 66-year-old resident of Warrenton, GA struggles with hunger since the loss of her son and her cancer diagnosis. “When I came down with cancer my whole world changed,” Hazel remembers. “It was a big shock. At that point, I wanted to give up.” After a lifetime of supporting herself, arthritis and asthma made it impossible [...]
Washington County Pantry Warms Hearts and Fills Pantries
Food Pantry Director Dorothy Stephens oversees the First Love Kids food distribution in Sandersville, Ga. On Tuesday, four days before First Love Kids, Inc’s spring food distribution, a Howard Sheppard truck full of food from Golden Harvest Food Bank pulled up to the agency on Hines Street in Sandersville, Ga. On Wednesday, volunteers began building boxes and lining them up on the rows of tables snaking across the agency’s floor. On Thursday, a volunteer team from the Sandersville Rotary Club and First Love Kids worked all day to fill the boxes with nonperishable food. “We come in [...]