HUNGER IN DALLAS, TX
By Ellen and Danny
“According to the U.S.
Census, Texas
is the 2nd hungriest state in the union, and 1st in terms of child hunger. So,
even just right here in Dallas,
Texas there’s a lot of hungry
underfed people and children.” To find out more about this group go to:
The Hunger Landscape in the Greater Dallas area is vast. The majority of the more than 280,000 children in the Greater Dallas area, facing hunger on a daily basis, live in the southern sector of our city. In the Dallas Independent School District, more than 87% of the children are eligible for lunch program assistance. Educators are discovering that many challenges in the classroom are related to hunger. FEED 3 is a joint project with the North Texas Food Planning Association to end the hunger crisis in North Texas. Feed the Body is a grass roots campaign that identifies and addresses daily hunger needs of impoverished neighborhoods in North Texas.
Additional Organizations that feed the hungry in Dallas include:
Union Gospel Mission
Union Gospel Mission
3211 Irving Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75247
214-637-6117
To See James Pitts on his stage, cooking and directing
others, keeping the kitchen at the Calvert Place Men’s Shelter running
smoothly, you wouldn’t guess this man has recently found victory over a 22-year
drug addiction. While he continues to advance through the Discipleship program,
James is assistant to Jackson Zepeda in the Men’s Shelter kitchen.
Watch this great video about the North Texas Food Bank!
North Texas Food Bank has fourteen feeding programs, the North Texas Food Bank provides access to food at more than 1,100 feeding locations throughout our service area. Each program presents a unique solution to the ongoing problem of hunger in our community.
Learn about all this great Dallas programs!
The Stewpot Meal Service
http://www.thestewpot.org/meal.asp
The dining room at The Bridge is called the Second Chance Café. The
Stewpot is currently serving three meals a day, seven days a week to more than
700 people per meal in the Second Chance Café - with the assistance of over
1300 wonderful volunteers a month! Volunteers dish up a delicious, nutritious
meal prepared by the Second Chance Cafe Kitchen staff served cafeteria style.
Volunteers also pour beverages for our guests once they are seated Meals are
served at the following times:
• Breakfast 7:00 – 8:30 am
• Lunch 11:30 – 1:00 pm
• Dinner 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Established by First Presbyterian Church
in 1975, The Stewpot began serving food when church members realized no
other resources were available for the homeless and hungry. By 1991,
Stewpot programs included a wide range of social services and the agency
moved across the street to a donated two story office building that
continues to be “home”. Over the years, The Stewpot has helped to
“birth” new organizations to meet community needs including Austin
Street Center, Genesis Women's Shelter, Interfaith Housing and The
Bridge. The Stewpot collaborates with more than 25 other nonprofits in
order to provide a continuum of care.
• Since May 2008, The Stewpot has
been the sole meal provider at The Bridge (Dallas’ homeless assistance
center), serving 1,500-2,000 meals per day, 7 days per week.
The SoupMobile is a mobile soup kitchen that feeds and shelters the
homeless. As a faith-based nonprofit, we serve over 200,000 meals per
year and shelter the homeless in our 7 group homes. Our Mission
Statement is three simple words spoken by Jesus: "FEED MY SHEEP."
The SoupMobile was founded in
2003 by David Timothy, a.k.a. The SoupMan, on a wing and a lot of prayers. The
SoupMobile is different from traditional soup kitchens in that we are ‘mobile’
and take the food to areas where the homeless congregate. We are literally on
the front lines of the war against hunger in Dallas, Texas.
The Salvation Army
Carr P. Collins Social Service Center
Located west of downtown Dallas, The Salvation Army Carr P. Collins
Social Service Center is across from Parkland Hospital on Harry Hines
Boulevard.
The 161,000 square foot center, which houses up to
600 people per night, is the largest multi-use facility in The Salvation
Army world. Every year, thousands of people find the spiritual and
practical help they need to change their lives at The Salvation Army
Carr P. Collins Social Service Center. Nowhere else in Dallas will
people find so many resources under one roof.
Meals
Between 1,200 and 1,500 meals are served at
this center each day. Sack lunches are provided for those going to work
or looking for work. Holidays are especially busy times for meals when
families from the community come in to save on the cost of preparing a
meal at home.
Food Pantry
Our food pantry provides nutritionally
balanced bags of groceries to members of our community who are
struggling with this most basic need.
Emergency Financial Assistance
For
the out-of-work and for the thousands of working poor who are employed
but still living in poverty, The Salvation Army provides emergency
assistance for rent and utilities to help get families through crisis
situations.
To learn about all the services of the Dallas Salvation Army, go to this website.
Majors Diane Johnson - Corps Officer
Blake Fetterman - Director
5302 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, Tx 75235
(214) 424-7050
Dallas LIFE is a charitable non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of trustees and is designed to meet the needs of homeless men, women, children and families in the Dallas metroplex. For over 50 years now they have had a profound impact on thousands of people as we reach out with kind, compassionate Christian love toward those in desperate need. Dallas Life reaches out to homeless men, women and children with food, clothing, shelter, education and long-term rehabilitation programs founded on spiritual principals and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
http://www.dallaslife.org/
All Dallas LIFE guests are provided 3 balanced meals per day, 365 days each year. On average, we serve between 1,000 and 1,200 meals each day. A full commercial kitchen, staffed mostly by residents, operates daily to feed our residents. Most food served in the Dallas LIFE kitchen comes in through our in-kind product donation program. Volunteers assist in serving meals and provide the staff with much needed assistance on a regular basis. We are very grateful to our 350 Dallas LIFE volunteers.
http://www.dallaslife.org/services/food/
See the amazing video!
Hunger Busters’
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