Food bank
A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that gives away food to those who have hard time buying enough to avoid hunger. While a it is a popular organization, many critics believe it would cause a welfare crisis.[1]
Food Bank Media
Fort Bragg Food Bank in Fort Bragg, California
Capital Area Food Bank
- US Navy 111123-N-HW977-185 Sailors weigh Thanksgiving food drive donations before delivery to the Corona-Norco Settlement House.jpg
Volunteers weigh food drive donations.
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Food pantry car line
- US Navy 090806-N-6220J-004 Sailors and Navy Delayed Entry Program members serve breakfast to homeless men and women at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen in Salinas, Calif. during Salinas Navy Week community service event.jpg
In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian soup kitchen. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the United States Navy serving visitors.)
Food Not Bombs, a food bank and distribution cooperative
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A food bank at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee
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Barnet Food Hub, supplying food banks in the London Borough of Barnet. March 2021.
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Food parcels given out by the Trussell Trust from 2005/06 to 2019/20.
References
- ↑ Graham Riches (1986). "passim, see esp. Models of Food Banks". Food banks and the welfare crisis. Lorimer. ISBN 0888103638.
