Setting out to fight Hunger
Over 6,000 children could go hungry at some point this summer in Orange County, according to hunger relief agencies.
While many receive free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch during the school year — about 30 percent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City students and roughly 44 percent of Orange County students — the programs break for summer, leaving families to pick up the cost.
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
In two weeks, Weaver Street staff, owners, and shoppers donated over $52,000 to PORCH’s Food for Families program! Thanks for the amazing support!
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
In 2010, three friends — Christine Cotton, Debbie Horwitz and Susan Romaine — emailed a few neighbors inviting them to leave plantinghope_titlepagecanned food on their porches. They collected these cans and delivered them to a nearby hunger relief organization. This was the beginning of PORCH (People Offering Relief for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Homes).
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
Stefanie Mazva-Cohen at CulbrethA local nonprofit organization has partnered with 19 schools and one preschool to provide children with healthy snacks.PORCH, a hunger relief organization in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area, offers food such as fresh produce and dry goods to families in need once a month. Despite this effort, some students were still coming to school with no snacks.
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
Mai Mai Suisin had never eaten canned food until she arrived in the U.S. last year as a refugee from Burma by way of Malaysia.
“We’re always used to eating all kinds of vegetables…without vegetables we cannot survive,” Suisin said. “That’s really the main food in our life.”
With your support, we can strengthen the safety net for our most vulnerable community members
PORCH Chapel Hill/ Carrboro
P.O. Box 16363
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-6363