Harry Chapin Food Bank

The Harry Chapin Food Bank distributes emergency food through 130 partner agencies in five counties of Southwest Florida (Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Glades, and Hendry). Our partners include church pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after school programs serving disadvantaged children, homeless shelters, facilities for disabled adults, day care centers, senior citizen centers, and rehabilitation facilities. Sometimes saving and always seeking to improve lives, these agencies are literally the safety net for Southwest Florida. By collaborating with the Food Bank, these agencies vastly extend their own wonderful missions. This could mean an additional home counselor at an abused women's shelter, a sports or art program at a home for troubled children, or the ability to pay the medication costs of a senior choosing between food and medication.

Each month, working with our partner agencies, the Harry Chapin Food Bank provides more than 300,000 pounds of high quality food to 20,000 needy people (more than 3.5 million pounds annually). In the critical days following Hurricane Wilma, the Food Bank delivered an additional 350,000 bags of groceries to Immokalee, Clewiston, LaBelle, Everglades City, and Chokoloskee. As impressive as that response was, it was dwarfed by the massive food aid delivered by the Food Bank to victims of Hurricane Charley.

For more information how you can be involved with Harry Chapin Food Bank contact Marta Hodson at 239-334-7007 Ext.32 or visit their website by clicking here.