Mobile Food Pantry Launching New Sites Next Week

Next week, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry will visit four new mobile pantry partner locations throughout Greater Des Moines. Times and locations for new DMARC Mobile Food Pantry sites are as follows:

• Beginning Monday, February 11, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry will visit Northwest Community Center, 5110 Franklin Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50310, every second and fourth Monday of the month from 12-2pm.
• Beginning Monday, February 11, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry will visit Chapel Ridge West Apartments, 210 S 41st Street, West Des Moines, IA 50265, every second and fourth Monday of the month from 4-6pm.
• Beginning Tuesday, February 12, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry will visit EveryStep Bright Kavanagh Center, 3000 Easton Boulevard, Des Moines, IA 50317, every second and fourth Tuesday of the month from 2-4pm.
• Beginning Wednesday, February 13, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry will visit Primary Health Care East Side Clinic, 3509 E 29th Street, Des Moines, IA 50317, every Wednesday from 9:30-11:30am.

Like other pantries in the DMARC Food Pantry Network, the DMARC Mobile Food Pantry provides a nutritionally balanced three-day supply of healthy food once per calendar month, as well as additional AnyTime Items that are available any day the food pantry is open.

The DMARC Mobile Food Pantries have been made possible by the Polk County Board of Supervisors and the Partnership for a Hunger-Free Polk County, Gregory and Suzie Glazer Burt, Charlotte and Fred Hubbell, and Variety-the Children’s Charity. Special thanks to Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa, Stivers Ford Lincoln, Schneider Graphics, Snappy’s Trailer Store, H&H Trailers, and two individual bequests.

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