Fed Up Over Food Stamps Diet
Volunteers lived on minimal food for five days in an effort draw awareness to possible cuts to the food stamps program.
Volunteers lived on minimal food for five days in an effort draw awareness to possible cuts to the food stamps program.
The Word of Life Christian Fellowship International’s Bronx food pantry draws more than 1,000 people a week. Sometimes, families are turned away if there isn't enough food.
Struggling Bronx residents in need of food are traveling to pantries in Manhattan.
The hungry won't find just food at the Yorkville Common Pantry. The Manhattan pantry also offers free haircuts and shaves, courtesy of volunteers from a Mennonite church in Manitoba, Canada.
The Yorkville Common Pantry handed out 2,200 turkeys in the days before Thanksgiving – but that wasn’t enough to meet the demand.
When his local food pantry began cutting back on its allotments, Jimmy Escobar got moving – on his bike.