SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Food Bank is stepping up and serving to out with a new marketing campaign serving to our seniors, as over 50,000 are reported to be coping with meals lack of confidence around the neighborhood.
The meals financial institution units targets to make sure their talent to make a safe neighborhood, feeding round 105,000 other people, together with seniors.
President and CEO of the meals financial institution, Eric Cooper, joined Leading SA this weekend to provide an explanation for subsequent month’s new senior-focused initiative.
“We’re asking San Antonio to help us allow for a hunger-free November for seniors. It’s basically this: If you give us the financial support, we’ll be able to access the food that would adequately nurse a senior for 30 days. And so it’s just $35 times that 50,000 seniors. If we can demonstrate this, I think we’ll know exactly what it’s going to take so that we can continue it for months to come,” Cooper stated.
Cooper shared how paintings from earlier tasks, equivalent to September’s Hunger Action Month, don’t seem to be deserted however act as components to their purpose.
“[It] is our goal to try to do just a little bit more to make sure that we can take care of all the seniors in our community. But it’s been incredible. You all led the call for Hunger Action Month and we saw lots more volunteers. People were doing food drives. You know, it was just an incredible effort to make sure that people are aware of the issue and that they get involved. And so we’re going to continue that challenge through the holidays and just encourage San Antonio to continue to come out and support the San Antonio Foodbank,” Cooper stated.
Cooper gave an perception into the meals banks’ long run plans for the neighborhood as contemporary inflation numbers display why many households combat.
“The cost of everything has gone up. And so families substitute, and so many families fall short, and they’re leaning on the food bank,” Cooper stated.
Planning forward, the meals financial institution is already running to make sure meals is at the desk for essentially the most celebrated meal of the 12 months, Thanksgiving.
“We’ve been working hard to procure turkeys, and it was great to see a couple of summery truckloads of frozen turkeys start to already come in from our procurement team. And so we’ve got to raise thousands and thousands of turkeys to make sure that no one goes without. And we’re committed to do that. So we’re going to be doing as much as we can. But San Antonio, you support us in allowing us to do that a great way is run the turkey trot,” Cooper stated.
For extra information at the San Antonio Food Bank and its Turkey Trot 5K Run/ Walk, click here.
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