The Salvation Army Partnering with Nourishing Neighbors to Fight Hunger in Our Community
Imagine having to worry about when your next meal will be, or not knowing what you can feed your children for dinner. Unfortunately, that is the reality many of our neighbors face every day. At The Salvation Army, we work to help find solutions for those in our community facing food insecurity.
We’re excited to be the recipients of a generous grant from Jewel-Osco Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors Program to help those in our community receive the benefits of existing federal meals programs such as SNAP and WIC federal meals programs.
“We’re grateful to Jewel-Osco and their generous customers for helping fight hunger in our community,” said Major Caleb Senn, Chicago Area Commander for The Salvation Army. “This grant will help connect qualifying individuals and families with federal meal programs designed to relieve hunger insecurity in our community.”
With this grant we will offer daily access to nutritious food, mentoring, counseling, vocational training, rental assistance, and weekly food assistance to low-income clients.
Salvation Army community centers provide a robust food pantry program, a mobile canteen meal program to reach people experiencing homelessness & hunger, and a shopping & food prep program for neighborhood families.
We prioritize addressing the immediate need for healthy food, register them for federal meal programs like SNAP and WIC, then provide referrals to additional Salvation Army support to meet specific needs, including transportation to access food services.
We can’t thank Jewel-Osco and Jewel-Osco Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors enough for giving us this grant to help our neighbors in need.
