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2009 Goal Surpassed!!!!!!!!

Walk Against Hunger: May 3, 2009

Through Hands On Hartford, the funds you raised:

• feed hungry children, help families struggling to make ends meet

• assist low-income seniors whose health is frail, and provide meals for homeless men and women.

• increase the buying power of every dollar raised, multiplied many times over because food is acquired through FoodShare, a member of Second Harvest, a regional/ nationwide food bank. In the past few months, food prices have risen. Globally, the price of rice— a food staple for many— has risen 75%.  Again this year, our donations to the Walk will be matched up to $25,000!  This match is generously provided by Robin Roberts. 

2008  Thank You Walkers and Donors!  

First Pres Walkers 2008   

Keith Rhoden, Jr. (with friends Michael, Chris and Beth),  Lois Maxwell, Shirley Dudley, June O’Neil, Saundra Spinelli, Karen Spears*, Pauline Robertson, Carolyn Blick, Terry Davis, Holly Billings (with friends Jonathan, Benjamin, Kathy and Marcia and Chris - Holly’s co-worker friend), Asa Cort**, Marissa Cort**, David Labins*, Akosua Adzenyah*, Ian Tamburini*, Fiona Tamburini**, Juliana Mantey.

“Walkers in spirit” include: Rusty Spears, Grant Spears and Flora & Ray Perleoni,  and Maude Morrison and Team St. Mary’s (Joy, Beth and Stephanie).  

The Hands On Hartford combined result (as of May 30, 2008) came to $450,721... of which First Pres raised a whopping  $ 8,000 with 27 walkers! 

Also, thank you to First Pres member Robin Roberts who pledged to match up to $25,000 for every dollar Hands On Hartford raised in the Walk Against Hunger, held on May 4, 2008. 

MANNA* Fast Food Facts

(Meals, Assistance, Neighbors, Nurturing & Advocacy)

Meals provided and numbers of people served annually through MANNA, Hands On Hartford’s basic needs programs:

♦Soup Kitchen   ♦Food Pantry  ♦Weekend Meals for Seniors

In a year’s time…

•     Approx. 18,000 lunches and take-home cold pack dinners are served on weekends to seniors at our community meal sites: Betty Knox Housing Complex in the Asylum Hill neighborhood; and Smith Towers in Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood.

•    Approx. 12,000 meals are delivered by staff to home-bound elderly people who are too frail to travel to the congregate meal sites.

•     Approx. 35,000 meals are served to more than 1,500 homeless and low-income adults at the soup kitchen at Christ Church Cathedral on Church Street.

•     More than 100,000 pounds of groceries are distributed to 250+ households monthly through the food pantry at One Buckingham Street. This equates to 75,000 meals annually. Most families using the food pantry are single mothers with more than one child.  Many are seniors who have trouble making ends meet. Many of these people work and use the food pantry to supplement their limited income.

•     Approx. 1,300 holiday meals are served to homeless and/or low income people on eight major holidays: New Year’s Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Dollars are Leveraged

•     Additional food is donated to the MANNA food pantry and soup kitchen by congregations, organizations and individuals.

•     Every dollar that Hands On Hartford spends on food at Foodshare of Greater Hartford is multiplied many times over because Foodshare is a member of Second Harvest. This regional/national food distribution network acquires surplus food free and charges MANNA only transportation, storage and administrative costs.  For example, $30.00 worth of food from Foodshare feeds a Hartford resident for a month. 

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