Food Truck Outreach

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Hope is in the bag!
The vision of a food truck outreach is to focus on distributing produce to residents in urban
neighborhoods, which often lack grocery stores that carry a variety of produce, as well as
rural areas that do not have adequate hunger relief resources. The Mahoning Valley Dream
Center (MVDC) food truck will go where the need is greatest, with some of our first target
distribution sites being at or near elementary schools. Individuals and families will have the
option to pick up groceries at the same time they meet their children after school. During
the summer months we will target neighborhoods, where there is a lack of public
transportation for families to get to grocery stores and where there is a lack of healthy food
choices. Because of our partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank and the MVDC as the
distribution agent, we will have the opportunity to distribute fresh produce as often as three
days a week. Many of the families say that the simple gift of a bag of groceries was just
enough food to get them through the month. Or they saved just enough on their grocery
costs that they were able to pay rent or keep the lights on. In this way, we will not only
address the issue of hunger, but also keep fragile families and children from sliding into
starvation and homelessness.