Helping Community Food Pantry and Hunger Task Force Improve Community Nutrition in Milwaukee’s Harambee Neighborhood
“I work diligently to ensure we are consistent in operating our pantry weekly since we’re located in a food desert,” said Billie Burton, manager of Helping Community Food Pantry. “We’re proud to be a source of nourishment to children and families as well as the number of seniors who are bound to our area due to transportation or physical limitations.”
Helping Community Food Pantry is open on Thursdays from 1 – 3 p.m. It is a choice pantry, which enables every guest to select nutritious food items that match their personal preferences. The team of staff and volunteers at Helping Community Food Pantry works to eliminate hunger as a roadblock to social and economic success for individuals and families.
“I believe the people in the Harambee neighborhood deserve to have our community resource,” adds Burton. “Within the next few years, we hope to update our space so clients can enter the building and shop the pantry on the same floor.”
Hunger Task Force is the only food bank in Milwaukee that does not charge for food, delivery or network membership and works diligently to ensure seniors and families can receive emergency food with dignity, on the day they need it and in the neighborhood they live in.