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Least of These
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A food pantry in Ozark provides, food, education and resources to those in need
Least of These has served over 14,000 families since it opened in Ozark in 1998, and that number keeps growing. Many of those they serve are working folks, but they don’t earn enough to make ends meet, according to the nonprofit. And even those who receive SNAP benefits often can’t make it to the end of the month without needing food assistance.
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Least of These
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Least of These has served over 14,000 families since it opened in Ozark in 1998, and that number keeps growing. Many of those they serve are working folks, but they don’t earn enough to make ends meet, according to the nonprofit. And even those who receive SNAP benefits often can’t make it to the end of the month without needing food assistance.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] ANGELA HUDSON: So our mission is to alleviate food insecurity by providing food here in Christian County, and additionally providing resources and education to help our neighbors in need.
This is a self-select pantry, but we do do it by appointment.
So tonight, we are hosting our annual Thanksgiving meal packing event.
We have anywhere from 200 to 300 volunteers that show up for our annual packing events.
And we are tonight packaging 1,600 Thanksgiving meals.
You're going to grab your bag.
You're going to walk from station to station, grab the item that's needed and fill the bag.
And then we're going to collect all those bags and distribute them during the month of November, when they come and pick up their normal monthly cart of groceries.
It is a variety of people that need our services right now especially, and so there's no one specific way to describe who actually comes and gets our food.
It's really whoever is in need.
Just to give you an idea of the impact that we have made, we have served almost 43,000 mouths for food and 2 million pounds of food has gone out the door.
So in Christian County right now, we have over 6,000 people that are receiving SNAP benefits and 12% that are living in poverty.
Right now, we can do a cart load of groceries.
And I don't just mean a cart full, I mean a really large cart full of groceries for only $64.
We are actually packing Thanksgiving meals.
We are also packing meals for Christmas.
And each one of those holiday meals is we can feed a family for only $30.
So what we really need is those people to give and donate, because our dollar can go a lot further than their dollar can go if they were going to the grocery store and buying these same foods to donate.
And that will help us meet more needs of these families in such a great way this holiday season.
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