Remembering Katrina: New Orleans’ Response
August 23, 2010
Tanya O’Reilly of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana talks about her food bank’s response following Hurricane Katrina.
Archive for August, 2010
Lucky Numbers
August 19, 2010
A New Orleans survivor of Hurricane Katrina is guided by some reoccurring numbers.
Life after Hurricane Katrina: How far have we come?
August 17, 2010
Visiting the gulf coast five years after Hurricane Katrina.
Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Thoughts from the San Antonio Food Bank (Part 3)
August 16, 2010
In the last of this three part series, members of the San Antonio Food Bank tell Feeding America about the tremendous efforts made by their staff to care for the refugees of Hurricane Katrina.
Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Thoughts from the San Antonio Food Bank (Part 2)
August 10, 2010
In the second installment of this three part series, Eric Cooper, President and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank, recounts stories from evacuees of the 2005 storm.
Chicago’s food desert is a cause of concern
August 9, 2010
Despite the diversity and abundance of food that Chicago’s Northside has to offer, more than 600,000 Southside residents live in a “food desert.”
End of the road for the unemployed
August 6, 2010
The New York Times recently ran an article about a woman who found herself faced with the desperate situation that many of people are or will soon be facing—A “99er,” Ms Jarrin is among the people who have exhausted the maximum 99-week of unemployment benefits.
Remembering Hurricane Katrina: Thoughts from the San Antonio Food Bank (Part 1)
August 6, 2010
In the first of this three part series, members of the San Antonio Food Bank tell Feeding America about the day the Hurricane Katrina refugees arrived in their city.
SNAP funding is on the chopping block
August 5, 2010
Today, senators will decide whether to provide assistance to states for Medicaid and teacher funding or to protect SNAP benefits. The package under consideration today cuts future SNAP benefits by $11.9 billion to pay for the bill.
Five years after Katrina
August 4, 2010
As we commemorate five years since the hurricane, we reflect on what it meant to be part of such a large-scale effort to help, and how the tragedy affected us personally. For the month of August, we will be featuring the experiences of people whose lived were affected by the storm.
