Lowcountry Food Bank Inc

Programs: Food distribution: the lowcountry food bank's (lcfb) mission is to lead the fight against hunger in our community. Since 1983, we have been the premier hunger-relief organization in the 10 coastal counties of south carolina (beaufort, berkeley, charleston, colleton, dorchester, georgetown, hampton, horry, jasper and williamsburg). In 2017, the lcfb distributed, in partnership with approximately 300 partner agencies, over 28 million pounds of food to 200,347 food-insecure children, seniors and families across coastal south carolina.

child and senior hunger-relief programs: the number of children in south carolina struggling to avoid hunger is immense; the food-insecurity rate for our state's youngest is 20%. Lcfb combats childhood hunger by regularly serving more than 9,000 children through a variety of programs including the back pack buddies weekend hunger-relief program providing meals for 3,924 public school children at 49 schools; the kids cafe afterschool program serves 283,183 meals to children at 51 sites; the summer meals program provides 66,153 meals; and the school pantry program, which provides monthly food-assistance boxes to low-income families, serves 1,280 public school children at 32 sites. Seniors in our community are particularly vulnerable to the problem of food insecurity. Most seniors are on fixed incomes and are faced with the rising cost of living and healthcare expenses. The lcfb's senior meals program serves 94,772 meals each year and the commodity supplemental food program (csfp) serves more than 2,000 seniors monthly.