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Throughout the year, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank team meets face-to-face with our neighbors who are struggling with food insecurity. It’s through our food distribution that people see and feel hope for a better tomorrow, as they receive essential food items and are able to feed themselves and provide for their families. 

The Food Bank serves individuals from all walks of life, including children, working adults, and older adults living on a fixed income through direct or indirect programs. The following are visual stories from our neighbors who receive essential food assistance thanks to the community’s generosity.

5 – Javier Receives Vital Food Assistance Thanks to Programs Like CSFP

The Food Bank’s Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) has played a vital role in the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals for the last 22 years. Considered one of the largest programs in the nation, CSFP provides vital food assistance to tens of thousands of adults over 60 each month who otherwise would struggle to have consistent meals.

Individuals like Javier, who discovered the program while out for a walk, have seen the benefits of the program. With small children at home, the food Javier receives helps not just his generation thrive, but also the future.

4 – Families Like Isaura’s Turn to Food Pantries for Food Assistance

The Food Bank, along with its network of partner agencies throughout Los Angeles County, collaborates daily to provide food assistance to individuals and children who struggle to access consistent meals. The Baldwin Park SDA Church food pantry is among those partner agencies that provide food assistance to its neighbors, whether they are housed or unhoused.

Isaura is one of the hundreds of neighbors who attend the Church’s drive-through distribution. With two retired adults and a child at home, their retirement income simply isn’t enough. Visits to the food pantry provide access to nutritious food items, especially for future generations. 

3 – Programs Like CSFP Help Provide Essential Food Assistance to Juan

Like Javier, Juan Jose is glad he found out about the Food Bank’s CSFP program. With over 150 distribution sites located throughout Los Angeles County, this program provides monthly food packages filled with staples such as canned fruits and vegetables, cereal, milk, pasta, rice, peanut butter, and more. By receiving this vital food box, older adults are able to stretch their food budget, and perhaps allow them to have more money for rent, utilities, or medical bills. 

Such is the case with Juan Jose, who receives benefits at his local park. As a retiree, Juan Jose’s fixed income doesn’t allow him to do much, nor spend much. 

“If these benefits were taken away, it would be a big problem, financially, because we don’t have any money,” Juan Jose told the Food Bank. 

2 – A Food Pantry That’s a Lifeline for Gary

Gary is a senior living in Koreatown. He recently got out of rehabilitation and has little to no energy. However, he enjoys attending the food distribution at St. James Episcopal Church, located near his home, every Thursday. 

Through a friend, Gary connected with Kathy, the Church’s Food Pantry Coordinator, who then told him more about the weekly food distribution. Since then, Gary has been a regular at the distributions, obtaining nutritious food that will help him get more energy to live his life to the fullest. 

1 – The Food Bank, in partnership with Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Delivers Smiles Across LA County

While the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is known for distributing nutritious food to the community, there are other items that the Food Bank offers. While these items are always welcomed among the community, there’s nothing like bringing a smile to a child’s face. 

When the wildfires started, hundreds of companies, organizations, and foundations reached out to the Food Bank to see how they could make a difference. Among them is the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. 

Those who have lost their homes due to the wildfires have lost everything inside them in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. While adults deal with the aftermath and rebuilding process, the Food Bank and the Toys for Tots Foundation teamed up to bring a moment of happiness to those children affected by the fires, as well as economically disadvantaged children throughout LA County, through the Food Bank’s Children’s Programs and hundreds of partner agencies.