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Bread Truck ministry takes food to those on the margins

For the past 13 years, Anthony Brown has delivered lunch bags of food six days a week, driving the Port Ministries Bread Truck to people who gather at eight stops in Back of the Yards, Englewood, New City, Gage Park and Canaryville.

‘We made mercy concrete,’ pastor says of food giveaway

In less than three hours on Divine Mercy Sunday, St. Mary of the Lake Parish distributed 30,000 pounds of food to people in need, mostly members of Chicago’s immigrant and refugee communities.

Schools distribute breakfasts, lunches to children while closed

When Catholic schools were closed to help prevent the further spread of COVID-19, Office of Catholic Schools staff knew that it wanted to continue serving meals to children who needed them.

COVID-19 fallout sending more people to local food pantries

With each passing day of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are news reports about more people being laid off. They are joining the ranks of the unemployed, and, in some cases, facing food insecurity.

Food pantries help others during holiday season

Is your parish having a food drive this year? What about your school, or service organization like Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts? You’re not alone.

‘March for Meals’

Each year in March, we celebrate “March for Meals” to honor the Meals on Wheels program and the seniors it serves. “March for Meals” gives us a great opportunity to explain just how vital this program is in the community, often being the critical difference between enabling seniors to age in place at home and having to move to a nursing facility for temporary or long-term care.

Feeding the hungry

During September, Hunger Action Month, it is important to educate ourselves about hunger and how we can get involved to change lives for the better. This month I reflect back to 2005 when Catholic Charities opened Casa Catalina Basic Human Needs Center in Back of the Yards and the tremendous impact it has had on the community.

Take up the challenge to fight hunger

Food is the most basic human need and a fundamental human right. Yet even in America’s land of plenty, hunger is a pressing problem needing our attention and commitment to action. That is why during the month of September — Hunger Action Month — Catholic Charities is partnering with the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office of Catholic Schools, Soldier Field and the Charles Tillman Cornerstone Foundation to hold the inaugural “Soup-er Stadium Challenge.”

Schools to tackle hunger in Soup-er Stadium Challenge

Soldier Field seats 61,500. In a new effort this fall to combat hunger in the Chicago area, students and staff in the archdiocese’s Catholic elementary and high schools are being asked, through the Soup-er Stadium Challenge, to donate enough food to fill each seat twice.

Catholic Charities offers summer breakfast and lunch program

Through Aug. 31, Catholic Charities will provide free, nutritious breakfasts and lunches to low-income children up to the age of 18 five days a week at 135 community sites across the Chicago area.

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