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The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant. [12] In 2007, The Global Food Banking Network was formed. [3] [17]
A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and soup kitchens. Some food banks distribute food directly with their own food pantries.
Food insecurity is defined at a household level, of not having adequate food for any household member due to finances. The step beyond this is very low food security, which is having six (for families without children) to eight (for families with children) or more food insecure conditions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Security Supplement Survey.
The Houston Food Bank (HFB) is a non-profit organization and the nation's largest food bank by distribution; [3] providing access to 207 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast Texas. The food bank's operations are made possible through a network of 1,800 community partners alongside their partner food banks in Montgomery County ...
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John Arnold van Hengel (February 21, 1923 – October 5, 2005) was a grassroots activist and entrepreneur credited as being the "Father of Food Banking". [1] In 1967, van Hengel founded St. Mary's Food Bank, the world's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program (EFAP-Soup Kitchens) provides United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodities to emergency feeding organizations to help with the food needs of low-income populations. It also authorizes grants to states to help with the state and local costs of transporting, storing ...
The new 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m 2) [6] warehouse is more than three times as large as the food bank's original 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m 2) warehouse and continues to serve the Capital Area Food Bank today. In 1998, the food bank opened another warehouse, in Lorton, Virginia, which has since served the needs of residents of Northern ...