Community Food Pantry in Delray Beach needs some help

While the hot food continues to be served from heated kettles at the Caring Kitchen, another facet of Christians Reaching Out to Society Ministries' work in Delray Beach is suffering due to low food pantry levels. A new campaign “Unite to Help Community Food Pantry” has been established to combat the shortcomings with pantry food stock. The Community Food Pantry’s Juanita Bryant-Goode, the South County coordinator of the Caring Kitchen/Community Pantry, is finding it hard in this dire economy to fill the shelves of the less fortunate in society.

“We could really use help stocking our pantry in August. Our numbers are rising each week and donations are very low in summer. Right now I'm struggling with the possibility of having to close some days when we don't have enough food to give
Out,” Bryant-Goode said.

The Community Food Pantry locations in Delray Beach is located at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Ave. Locations also exist in Lake Worth at the Department of Children and Families and in Riviera Beach at the Housing Partnership location. Goode said some of the non-perishable food items needed include macaroni and
cheese, pasta, peanut butter, rice, beans (dried or canned) and soup. She said that just last year 49,572 people received emergency food, half of them children.

Jennifer Aracri, owner of Curves in Delray Beach, is a member of the
Delray Business Partners, part of one of the Greater Delray Beach Chamber Group’s that’s coming together with the “Unite to Help Community Food Pantry” campaign.

"I know we are all struggling. Summers are slow at our businesses. Our kids are getting ready to go back to school so we're buying school supplies. Our fixed incomes are just that - fixed, but I think we can all admit that in many ways we are
blessed,” Aracri said.

She’s made her business a drop off point for the goods to help the Community Food Pantry.

Curves is located at 1316 North Federal Highway in Delray Beach. Anyone wishing to drop-off non-perishable food items should do so at Curves, or St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

For more information call Juanita Bryant-Goode at 561-619-5113 or e-mail communityfoodpan@bellsouth.net
C.R.O.S. Ministries official site is www.crosministries.org

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