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Soup kitchen at Waukegan parish doesn’t stop for pandemic

When COVID-19 forced many soup kitchens to close down, the Holy Family Soup Kitchen at Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan didn’t miss a day. Instead, it shifted from serving hot meals in person to distributing those meals in to-go containers at the door.

St. Eulalia’s Quinn Center adapts to keep feeding those in need

When the pandemic forced St. Eulalia Parish’s weekly soup kitchen to close because of social distancing requirements, the parish’s Quinn Community Center staff decided it could still distribute meals and groceries to people safely with a drive-thru model.

Lay group brings food to those in Blue Island who need it

For 16 years, the lay group Pro Labore Dei/Feed My Lambs has been faithfully feeding the homeless and the needy in Robbins. When the pandemic hit and many people lost their jobs, the members felt called to expand their work to Blue Island.

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.
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