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How Harvesters is Responding to the Pandemic

From Harvesters President and CEO: We understand the growing concern surrounding Coronavirus (COVID-19) across our community. Harvesters - The Community Food Network remains committed to our mission to provide nutritious food to anyone who needs it.<br />
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Who Needs Help During the Pandemic

Harvesters' agency partners are seeing families and seniors needing food turning to food pantries or mobile food distributions for assistance in record numbers.
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During COVID-19 This is How Our Agencies are Serving Clients

Harvesters has an extensive network of partner agencies across our 26-county service area. These agencies include pantries, kitchens, and shelters. During this pandemic, we are working with our network of agencies to help them stay up to date on the status of the outbreak and to share best practices for cleaning facilities and washing hands.
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You're a Lifeline to Tammy

"Sometimes I only eat one meal a day," Tammy says of her situation. Adjusting to life on Social Security has been a challenge for her. Tammy spent her life doing hard labor at a factory and on her feet working at a restaurant, so it's been tough on retirement to not have a job - or the same income.
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How Harvesters is Responding to the Pandemic From Harvesters President and CEO: We understand the growing concern surrounding Coronavirus (COVID-19) across our community. Harvesters - The Community Food Network remains committed to our mission to provide nutritious food to anyone who needs it.

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Harvesters is place where you can donate food and where people can get food if they don't have it. People who don't have anything to eat go there to get food to feed themselves and their family. You can donate to Harvesters to help out the hungry people.

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What is Harvesters and how does this organization help feed the hungry in northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri? How can I support this nonprofit? What can I do to help fight hunger?

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Father Pat Tobin was traveling the world doing missionary business. While in Ethiopia he saw a young boy eating dirt. He then saw the need to feed the hungry. So when he got home he started to collect excess groceries in a garage. He would store all this food hear and then give it to agencies that could properly distribute the food. In 1979 Father Tobin helped start Harvesters. From there it took oof and is helping feed people in the midwest.

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There are many different ways you can volunteer. You can give money, your time, and food. On the website you can donate money. You can donate food by going up there to donate or donating in food bins around town. The final way to donate is through volunteering. You can schedule online and then go volunteer for them. They have many different activities you can volunteer for.

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“Harvesters -The Community Food Network.” Harvester's -The Community Food Network, harvesters.org.

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We were going to host a basketball camp at St. Elizabeth to help Harvesters. Our conditions were an  admission fee for the camp is food instead of money. It is a 5 can minimum per person. We will collect these cans and give them to Harvesters at the end of the camp. For the basketball portion we were going to teach the kids at the camp new skills and refresh them on their old skills.

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"We are a regional food bank serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas. Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 760 nonprofit agencies including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, homeless shelters, children’s homes and others. We also offer education programs to increase community awareness of hunger and teach about good nutrition."

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Harvesters - The Community Food Network feeds hungry people today and works to end hunger tomorrow.

The food ba... nk has four key initiatives to alleviate hunger in our community: Childhood Hunger, Feeding Families, Senior Feeding and Healthy Eating.

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James's fundraiser for Harvesters - The Community Food Network

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Braden's 8th Grade Project for Harvesters - The Community Food...

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- In KC over 340,000 people are food insecure and missing around 58.2 million meals every year

- 13.3 percent of people in our region are food insecure

-In Harvesters region 40.6 percent of food insecurity victims are ineligible for nutrition or food programs

- Children are usually most in need of food

- 105,320 children are food insecure in KC

- Only 57 percent of food insecure children are illegible for federal nutrition programs

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Harvesters-The Community Food Network in Kansas City provides opportunities for people to volunteer. Volunteers age 8 and older are welcome. We have a variety of opportunities in Kansas City and Topeka.

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Make A Gift - Harvesters - The Community Food Network

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What is Harvesters and how does this organization help feed the hungry in northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri? How can I support this nonprofit? What can I do to help fight hunger?

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With Harvesters-The Community Food Network, you can give back to the community by hosting a food drive and donating food to hungry families, seniors and children.

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- 37 million people in the US struggle with hunger

- Out of those 37 million people that struggle with hunger 11 million are children

- Children are the most likely group in the US to face food insecurity

- 1 in 6 children in the US don't know where their next meal is coming from

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Since Covid-19 halted the camp to a stop, we could not gain any food for Harvesters. So Lucas, Braden, and I started fundraisers for Harvesters. We are collecting money and food items that are going directly to Harvesters. We are helping them so they can help others.

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“Facts about Poverty and Hunger in America.” Feeding America, feedingamerica.org.

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“11 FACTS ABOUT HUNGER IN THE US.” DoSomething.org, dosomething.org.

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Harvesters works tirelessly after coronavirus outbreak to provide for Kansas, Missouri residents

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf8nFtH8byU

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