Mount, Vernon's Grateful Bread Food pantry helps hundreds of people every month.

It just moved to a new location right across the street from its old location.

It's also twice as big.

The hope is that more space will mean more help for the hungry.

This amazing new, beautiful facility will serve nearly 200 seniors per month who might be isolated, struggling with hunger.

If it weren't for programs like this one.

On top of that, it's going to be preparing 150 food backpacks each Friday for elementary school students because none of our seniors and none of our children should ever go without the nutritious food that helps them to survive.

Across the United States, approximately 11 to 11 and a half percent of those living in our country experience hunger.

And here in Castle County, it's almost 16%.

That's unacceptable.

This facility is part of the solution.

But this facility itself is not the solution.

It's the people in this room.

This facility is a catalyst for growth in the last decade.

Through that facility across the parking lot.

They distributed three and a half million meals in just the last year.

It was over 300,000.

Imagine what this facility will allow compared to the challenges it's going to be.

That Grateful Bread worked through to be able to do that kind of work.

The pantry also partners with Roc Castro County schools.

And each week serves 142 students with weekend food backpacks.

That's 568 food backpacks a month to meet the needs of children who may not have enough to eat at home when they are not receiving free or reduced lunch at school.

One in four.

Raul Nassau County School students Is hunger insecure.

People ask me as superintendent, what keeps me up at night?

That keeps me up at night knowing that we have students in our community and in our school system that are not properly nourished.

And we all know how difficult it is to learn if you're not properly nourished.

I think it's really important for students to be involved.

A lot of people don't realize that the students around them are struggling and like their families are struggling.

These students are packing hundreds of meals every single week.

Going to their fellow residents in the county is a pretty special thing.

And whether or not people would get those meals.

Without these students, you got to wonder.

I think this is really beneficial to just learn about the students around you and even to know that, like you're helping someone, even if you don't know, like who they are specifically.

It's really rewarding.

At the end of the day.

The Christian Appalachian Project hopes this new facility helps it reach even more families than it has in the past, even though it's located in Rock Castle County.

The project also serves Jackson, Owsley, Clay and McCreary Counties and others around Kentucky.