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Minnie Hackney
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Joplin area residents come together each week to help a local nonprofit feed their community
For generations, the Minnie Hackney Center in Joplin has opened its doors and its heart, serving hot meals to area residents with the help of local volunteers. The organization provides meals on weekends to meet a need during times when many food pantries aren’t open.
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Sense of Community
Minnie Hackney
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For generations, the Minnie Hackney Center in Joplin has opened its doors and its heart, serving hot meals to area residents with the help of local volunteers. The organization provides meals on weekends to meet a need during times when many food pantries aren’t open.
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[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC] WOMAN: It started as the Negro Service Council back in 1946.
As most people know, in that time, there was segregation in this part of the country.
It came as a way for Black people in this area to have the ability to socialize outside of church.
Minnie Hackney was the executive director.
She started in 1947.
And she continued all the way through the mid '80s as the director of the Negro Service Council.
We, at that time, brought it before the members to name it after Minnie Hackney, to, you know, do business as the Minnie Hackney Community Service Center as a way to honor her and what she did for the center.
We offer a weekly meal here on the weekends.
And we offer a place-- if people are needing food, they can contact us.
We'll be able to get together some type of food or resources for them to get food to take home with them.
Our charter goes back to helping indigent people in whatever way we can.
We have seen a jump in numbers of people that are needing food and needing resources to be able to get food.
That's part of the reason why we provide this, you know, meal on Saturdays.
But we also send people home with a meal.
I say often that we are community blessed, community built.
And it truly is that.
This place here is a part of this community.
And I don't know.
The only way that it continues to do what we do is by the community blessing us, by stepping up and being a part of it.
I'm just, on a daily basis, just revived with humanity.
Because it's hard sometimes to see some of the things that are happening in the world.
But then to know every single Saturday you've got folks here that are coming in and just serving their community, it really is-- it really is amazing.
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