4 results for month: 05/2018
DMARC Announces Two New Mobile Food Pantries
DMARC is pleased to share that it will receive two new Mobile Food Pantries, thanks to the generosity of Gregory and Suzie Glazer Burt and Variety - the Children’s Charity, who have provided funds to pay for the truck and trailers and the cost to retrofit both mobile pantries. The Partnership for a Hunger-Free Polk County will cover the remaining costs of the operation and DMARC will operate them and provide the food for both mobiles.
The new mobile pantries will help children in the greater Des Moines community, thanks to the collaboration and partnership with Boys and Girls Clubs. The Mobile Food Pantries will visit their locations at times ...
Stamp Out Hunger 2018 Was a Huge Success!
On Saturday, May 12, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) held their 26th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive across the nation, and the DMARC Food Pantry Network was the local beneficiary of the food drive in the greater Des Moines area.
That Saturday, letter carriers around the metro collected food donations from mailboxes and doorsteps, which were brought back to their local post offices, and then transported to the East Grandstands' Hall of Law and Flame at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
All together, 63,402 pounds of food were collected during Stamp Out Hunger. Over 100 watermelon bins full of food! The following week, hundreds ...
Our Statement on H R 2
The Des Moines Area Religious Council supports a bipartisan Farm Bill and opposes some proposed changes to SNAP which are included in the House Republican Farm Bill (H R 2), specifically those having to do with expanding the existing work requirements and eliminating categorical eligibility. While we do not oppose work requirements in theory, we believe the proposed changes will do more harm than good.
The truth is, most SNAP recipients who are able to work DO work – only 14% of all families receiving SNAP benefits in Iowa’s third congressional district as of January 2018 had no workers in the family during the past 12 months.
People living ...