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Palm Beach County is number one for
agricultural production mistake so why
is it we have an one producer of
agricultural products products has sold
all over the United States we have great
food insecurity why is that a lot of
times people think of hunger and someone
being hungry and not having any food to
eat but when we talk about food
insecurity we're saying that at some
point during the month somebody will be
without enough food to eat or they are
not getting the nutrition that they need
in Palm Beach County over two hundred
thousand individuals are food insecure
that's more than 16 percent of Palm
Beach County right now a number of us
who have food pantries or hot milk
programs have come together and through
the United Way of Palm Beach County as
well as the Palm Beach County Board of
County Commissioners we have a hunger
relief plan the hunger relief plan we
have over 130 people involved it made on
a monthly basis by representing about
seventy three different organizations
from throughout the county and each one
of those groups wretches subdivided and
the four committees we have seniors we
have children we have infrastructure and
we have the glades committee and each
committee has developed a set of targets
that they're gonna try to achieve here
for 2017 and 18 based on their goals and
objectives for the specific area that
they're working out so we are looking at
what's happening in the glades what's
happening to our seniors what's
happening to children and then what is
the infrastructure that's available so
that for example we across ministries
cross ministry stands for Christians
reaching out to society we have been
around since 1978 right now we are
having about 5,000 people every month we
had seven food pantries in Palm Beach
and Martin counties as well as a hot new
program the Karen kitchen
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I live in a trailer home out by the lake
Osburn west of here I have a three wheel
bicycle and that's my transportation and
I come here
because I don't get enough money off of
social security and this helps my foods
because I get a minimum amount to live
on for the month used to being
electrician I used to make a lot of
money and now I don't
and these people help out a very much
this is a food pantry that is private
donations we do have some support from
the government agencies that have food
and they share with us but a lot of what
we get is donations from churches and
synagogues and service organizations we
have a lot of kind people that although
we're food pantry though we'll bring
employees for them too it really amazed
me the number of people and the
different situations that got them into
the position that they're in a lot of
them it's a matter of just being able to
find work or they find they're surprised
to find themselves in the situation
they're in
nobody really chooses not to have enough
to eat so many of the people coming in
have a job two jobs in Palm Beach County
is very expensive so very many people
and it could be may have to make the
choice between do I pay my rent or do I
buy food we have a lot of seniors here
in our community who never thought that
they would need to come to any of our
feeding programs they've worked all
their lives they are retired but they're
on a fixed income it's just not enough
the caring teach and hot milk program is
our program in Delray Beach where we are
currently serving a hot lunch Monday
through Friday and a dinner on Sunday
nights I tell the people that comes here
where I interviewed for community
services is that the caring kitchen is
about love and that's what motivated me
right now we are in transition we are
preparing the food at the caring kitchen
and then we have partnered with three
congregations in Delray Beach and we are
able to serve food from there we act
case on United Methodist Church
resurrection life fellowship as well as
San Marcos Episcopal Church
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I live in Delray Beach myself so every
time that I'm driving on the street or
going to the grocery store I see a lot
of people that's you know art sinful
food so then you can tell them and where
we serve the food and what days we are
is my pleasure to direct them in so they
can have something to eat my name is
Anthony I was a business owner I had two
businesses and I made some mistakes in
life and I became homeless in 2013 I
land in da-rae
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Karen kitchens been good to us anywhere
from close to feedings every single day
it's the only place that we have in
Delray that we can go to and be able to
have a warm meal it takes time you might
not be able to say we will end hunger
but we can alleviate it we are the ones
on the ground we're the ones who are
seeing people coming in we're the ones
who are hearing the stories they don't
look any different from any one of us
you know and as long as we remember that
we can do it
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funding for this program provided by the
JPB Foundation and the Ford Foundation
