The funding will support the Food Pantry and after-school program: Kid's Time - serving children home-cooked meals every Monday through Thursday. The unemployment rate for this area was This funding should sustain the food boxes, school lunch delivery, and weekend backpack programs for two months for purchasing additional food, extra staff time, and mileage reimbursement for home deliveries.
Emergency Operations have set up a call center for food pick up and delivery for vulnerable populations are those with COVID These funds will increase capacity for delivery and service and availability of food.
Gunnison County Food Pantry and Emergency Operations focuses on the needs of seniors, low-income, immigrants, youth and others in our community that are disproportionately affected, along with those ill with COVID They are primarily funded by Thrift Store sales; however, had to close both the Thrift Store and Donation Center in mid-March until at least April 30, This funding will help pay staff and purchase food.
They are distributing boxes of food, and also continuing to serve children through our Rocket Pack healthy snacks for children program. They will focus on three main activities focused on immediate hunger relief. Activity 1: Source and distribute grocery bags to students and their families participating in free school meal programs. Activity 2: Purchase rice and beans to add to grocery bags assembled and distributed by Los Pobres, an organization that supports recent immigrants, and migrant workers in rural Pueblo County.
This proposal results in about 23, instances of immediate hunger relief. With the resources provided, the work of the Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley will be fortified during troubling times for those around us. With the funds requested they will have the ability to leverage our spending to overcome the current challenge we have in locating food. Sparrow House is currently up and running and distributing to-go boxes of food.
