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Causes: Food, Food Banks & Pantries, Food Programs
Mission: To provide food to the needy people in south georgia.
Programs: Product collection, storage and distributionthe activities consist of receiving donated food items which are cleaned and repackaged, if necessary. The food items are distributed to other not-for-profit organizations, which in turn provide food to the hungry and needy. The food bank is open five days a week, fifty-two weeks a year,excluding holidays, and has four locations. The organization helps over five hundred programs. Fye 12/31/2014, just over 18 million pounds of food items were distributed.
kids cafe programthe kids cafe program provides after school meals to children who attend partner sites with the food bank. Each child receives an hour of homework assistance as well. This program is funded by cacfp.
teacher's harvest programthis program provides free learning supplies to teacher's in at risk schools to use in their classrooms. For a school to qualify, at least 80% of the students must be enrolled in the federal free and reduced lunch program.