Alma T. is one of many Marylanders struggling to cope with inflation, and has been forced into choosing between food and paying for medical visits. Learn how a local food pantry is helping Alma, and many others in northern Baltimore.
“It takes me back to when I was a child in the inner city where food was a lot scarcer. When your neighbor up the street couldn’t get out or had health issues, so you took what you had and shared with them. To me the food bank is that neighborhood, that village I grew up in. It lets me know that I’m not alone — lets me know that people still care for people.”
Haven Ministries in one of hundreds of Maryland Food Bank community partners that help distribute tens of millions of meals statewide to food-insecure Marylanders like Tina Trice.
Learn about Tracey’s unique 10-year relationship with the food bank, where she has gone from food recipient to starting a food pantry at the school she now serves as Principal. It’s partnerships like this keep the food assistance safety net strong for all hungry Marylanders.
Meet Linda Bullock, U.S. Army Veteran of the war in Afghanistan, who suffers from PTSD, and is unable to work. Receiving food from her local pantry allows her to focus on recuperating.
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