![]() The Summer BreakSpot food program is funded by the U.S. 4.Īccording to Ellsworth, Second Harvest has participated in summer food programs for well over 10 years and expects to outpace the 6,200 children fed during the program in 2022. The Summer BreakSpot program is currently operating in Gulf, Jackson, Leon, Madison, and Taylor counties will serve breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, Monday through Friday until Aug. Other: Tallahassee mom makes case that 'I am Billie Jean King' book 'infringes' on parents' rights More education news: Leon County Schools adding gun-detecting artificial intelligence software to 5 schools Second Harvest of the Big Bend, located in Tallahassee, is a nonprofit food bank and a member of the Feeding America network serving a 16-county area in the Florida Panhandle. "We recognize that the opportunities for families to meet the nutrition needs of children becomes more difficult in the summer because of the added stress of not having the support of free breakfast or lunch for children," Second Harvest CEO Monique Ellsworth told the Tallahassee Democrat. In an effort to help bridge the gap in nutritious meals that children rely on during the school year, Second Harvest of the Big Bend recently began Summer BreakSpot, a summer meal program providing free meals for children under 18 at 20 locations in Leon County. That reality becomes more apparent when school is out for the summer. We distribute food through our main warehouse in Charlotte and through branches in Hickory (Catawba County-NC), Spartanburg (Spartanburg County-SC) and Anderson (Anderson County-SC).Child hunger is a significant issue in Tallahassee, with one in three children in Leon County struggling to find their next meal. These numbers do not incorporate our new counties in SC. These numbers do not incorporate our new counties in SC.Īpproximately 75% of the food we distribute is donated, 7% is purchased and 18% of the food comes from government commodities. ![]() Our emergency pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters continue to report significant increases in requests for assistance over last year. Over 41 million pounds of our annual distribution is fresh produce, meat and dairy.ġ2.6% of our service area population, over 489,000 people, live in poverty including over 159,000 children and 52,000 seniors. SHMETROLINA annually distributes 75 million pounds of food and other household items throughout our 24 county service region. SHMETROLINA provides food for over 950 partner agencies including soup kitchens like Urban Ministries, emergency pantries like Loaves and Fishes, homeless shelters like Uptown Men’s Shelter and Center of Hope, senior programs, and low-income daycares. To see facts about each county, click county on the map below. We serve 10 counties in South Carolina including Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenwood, Lancaster, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union, and York. We serve a total of 24 counties - 14 counties in North Carolina including Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rowan, Rutherford, Stanly and Union. We provide training, technical assistance and hunger education to our partner agencies. We provide a regional distribution warehouse and branches that supply food and grocery items to charitable agencies that assist people in need. ![]() SHMETROLINA has been in existence since 1981. Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (SHMETROLINA) strives through education, advocacy, and partnerships to eliminate hunger by the solicitation and distribution of food. ![]() ![]() About Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina ![]()
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