Mobile Food Pantries are a great Idea!

Tom's posting (below) about fresh produce being delivered to folks sparked this posting about the same application in the food bank world. We continue to highlight the great benefits of eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and I'd be preaching to the choir here for sure; so what our network has been doing is delivering fresh produce and other fresh goods using trucks like the ones pictured here. These "Mobile Pantries" deliver good to neighborhoods all across the country.

The truck here is from the Greater Chicago Food Depository and is one of two that the food bank used to take food TO the hungry in the Chicago land area delivering millions of pounds of fresh produce to consumers. Also listed here is a link to a video highlighting the Executive Director of our member located in Comstock Park, Michigan (Grand Rapids area). John Arnold explains in this quick video how they use the used pop & beer trucks to take fresh foods to Michigan's hungry. Here's the link directly to that video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p9GKT0wzU0 These delivery systems are happening all across the country and the need for more and more innovative ways are needed to delivery food to those in need in the U.S. For more information about these delivery programs, contact Rick Bella via email rbella@secondharvest.org