Providing Hunger Relief to North Texas Residents

Bobby's Story:

Meet Bobby, a 90-year-old North Texas resident who shares his story on his struggles with hunger, and how he was able to find help.

Join us in helping North Texas families in need. In an effort to help the community, the Mean Green Food Machine is raising money to support the North Texas Food Bank: a key fighter in the battle against hunger.

What Is The North Texas Food Bank?

Asking for help can be difficult, as Bobby mentions in his own experience, but it's important to know that avenues of support are readily available. What organizations like The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) strive to provide are uplifting, judgement-free, life-changing services all dedicated to helping communities in need. Founded in 1982, the NTFB is a non-profit organization that at present serves nutritious food and relief - at no cost - to community members in 13 north Texas counties.

The Importance of Fighting Hunger

With Texas being the second hungriest state in the country, the North Texas Food Bank is in an ongoing fight with hunger. Food insecurity is a catalyst for several other problems. Growing children require adequate nutrition for their development. Unhealthy foods are often cheaper and since hunger and poverty often go hand in hand, these circumstances lead to increased rates of child obesity as well. If we can eliminate hunger as one of the factors inhibiting someone’s socioeconomic growth, then more attention and income can be focused on improving those other areas. There are countless reasons why someone may not be able to obtain or afford food, but hunger is not an individual problem. The United States does not have a shortage of resources; it is the citizens that are lacking support. This is what makes organizations like the NTFB so crucial to our community.

Where Does the Money Go?

95% of the resources donated to North Texas Food Bank go directly to supporting programs that provide food to children, seniors, and families. One dollar equals three meals for our North Texas community!

Services include:

• Nutrition services for educating people in the community.

• Garden programs that’s offer workshops, tours, and volunteer opportunities.

• Disaster relief for responding to major disaster.

Check Out the Story of This Mother of 6, Maria:

Thanks to the North Texas Food Bank and its Feeding Network partner Brother Bill’s, Maria Olivos doesn’t have to worry about having food for her six children.

“Thank you so much to the North Texas Food Bank because my children can eat better and we are very happy,” she says.

Maria started visiting the grocery store at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand several months ago and says with the cost of housing and groceries up, they needed help to ensure their family had nutritious food at home.

“You can’t buy the same,” she says, of the groceries they receive. “The rent is so expensive; taxes have gone up and so has food. The food they give us here helps us a lot. It’s not like before where money would go farther, but for me this is now poverty.”

She says her children look forward to the rice, oatmeal, fruits and vegetables they receive, and one of her daughters enjoys visiting the pantry to help her select groceries.

“I am so grateful,” Maria says.

You may find more information about North Texas Food Bank at: https://ntfb.org/#

Phone: (214) [phone redacted]