FoodBank

Help our Food Bank Friends in the Gulf!  The Bay Area Food Bank is eligible for a $100,000 gift through the Pepsi Refresh Project on the Today Show!  They are now in the top four and voting ends Tuesday, July 6 so please vote right now! 

VOTE HERE NOW!    

The Bay Area Food Bank services counties in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. They have already witnessed the effects of the oil spill on the people in their area. To respond to the increased need, the food bank has expanded its existing mobile pantry program.

The Bay Area Food Bank has learned countless workers in the fishing and service industry in their area are already out of work and are seeing declining work due to the oil spill. Using the mobile pantry to get to communities that have been particularly affected, the food bank has been able to help meet the need. On June 29, with the help of the National Guard serving as volunteers for the day, the food bank distributed food to around 260 families in Bayou la Batre, Alabama, a total of 12,000 pounds of food.

Additional distributions have recently taken place in Defuniak Springs, Florida, Pascagoula and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The food bank has already decided what they would spend this money on.  They would use these funds for the mobile pantry program and child nutrition programs.

The winner will be announced July 7. Please vote from now until then to help the Bay Area Food Bank.

VOTE HERE NOW!

The food bank was nominated for the contest by one of their agencies, Georgetown-Chunchula United Methodist Church in Chunchula, Alabama.

Thank you for your support of one of our fellow Food Banks!

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