Detroit is My Home

20
Nov

Help the hungry

Author: Teresa, Category: Uncategorized

Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan, the region’s largest emergency food provider, has reached a critical food shortage. The agency’s inventory is down by 1.5 million pounds of food.While the need for emergency food continues to grow, national food donations have decreased. The trend of national food companies’ improved efficiency levels leading to less and less surplus product for the emergency food network is not surprising overall, but the amount of decline was. The 35% decline in donations so far this year - one million pounds of food - is the largest falloff to date; at a time when Michigan’s economy is at its worst, the amount has had a major impact on the emergency food system.

Please help, by donating money or participating in or organizing a food drive.