Food For Greater Elgin needs your help to respond to an expected 20% increase in the number of families seeking food assistance.
Times of crisis help us remember who we are.
Last Wednesday, President Trump’s speech shifted the paradigm as to the nature of the effect of the coronavirus on this country, and on Thursday, people reacted, for good or for ill.
The stock market has had wild runs, down and up. Business owners who began the day contemplating what they could do with their profits ended
the day wondering if they could survive. And the number of people who were uncertain about food to feed their families surged.
As we begin to take precautions against the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), it is important to recognize that this epidemic creates a very real economic crisis in the lives of our neighbors: work stops, people lose their jobs and cannot pay for food.
We had 153 families come to us on Thursday night, 11 of them new to us.
On Friday, someone knocked on our door representing 100 people who lived in a low-income senior facility, wondering if we could bring food to them because their usual sources were cut off.
Of course we will. It is who we are.
We provide food to people who are food insecure. We provide a platform for people to access resources for their lives. We empower people to stabilize their lives.
We will have to be nimble and adjustable in how we operate. Some of our volunteers absolutely must take a step back from their beloved service with us out of concern for their own health. Meeting the needs of a greater number of people will require more money. But together we will get it done.
- Give now. Remember, $50 feeds a family for a week.
- Volunteer for warehouse (any hour) or distribution sessions (Mondays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesdays from 9 to 11 a.m. and Wednesdays from 11 to 1 p.m.)
Thank you for being a Hunger Hero!
Michael Montgomery
Interim Executive Director