Suppose
a brother or sister is without clothes and daily
food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you
well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing
about his physical needs, what good is
it?
James
2;15-16
"The Interfaith Food Bank
distributes food to hungry people as an important step
in restoring human dignity and
potential."
Interfaith
Council of Amador is a charitable non-profit
corporation founded in 1996 by local churches and
social service organizations and supported 100% by the
community. The primary purpose of this council is to
operate The Interfaith Food Bank. Our Mission is to
distribute food to hungry people as an important step
in restoring human dignity and
potential.
The
Interfaith Food Bank collects commodites in an effort
to combat hunger in Amador County. We accept donations
of food from individuals as well as all the grocery
stores in Amador County. Our thanks to: Raley's
Safeway, Cost Less, Save Mart, Payless Market and Ione
Market. In 2008 we served an average of 1300 families
a month; 3500 individuals. This is an increase of 35%
over last year's numbers. We continue to glean foods
daily from our generous grocers in Amador County as
well as the hundreds of private donations. We gleaned
over 600,000 pounds last year.
We serve
people from all walks of life. Most recently we have
been seeing families and individuals that have never
needed help before. Every day someone new comes to us
for food. The people in our community, our neighbors
are children, the elderly, the disabled, veterans,
underemployed, homeless. The sad reality is it will
continue to get worse and we are here to help. We
provide emergency food boxes twice a
month.
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12181 Airport Road Jackson, CA 95642 Phone: (209) 267-9006 Fax: (209) 267-9008 E-mail: interfaith209@sbcglobal.net
Thanks to these businesses for their donations
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