Winter food drive to help feed the hungry

Hunger remains as one of our greatest social problems (if not the greatest social problem) globally. In the United States, it is hard for some of us to fathom that there are people who are hungry or food insecure on a daily basis. Through our mobile food pantry services at Madinah Food Pantry we see firsthand the situations many families are in currently in which they must struggle each month to get food to survive since we started our mobile food pantry service in the spring of 2011. Many of the families we serve no longer receive food stamps, or if they receive so little food stamps (sometimes as little as $30 per month) that they must have food packages delivered monthly just to sustain themselves. Many of our local seniors, disabled and widows are expected to live on these very meager amounts of food stamps each month. Our single parent families have also seen reductions in what they receive through food stamps as well and are in need of food items to feed their families (many have large families). This situation is NOT getting any better but worse. We are seeing dramatic increases in elders needing food, homelessness among Muslim families (especially senior sisters and single parent families) and refugees in our area needing food.

We encourage all who can to donate to this very important mission to feed the hungry. We can accept donations via PayPal at www.madinahfoodpantry.org or via [email protected] so we can purchase bulk food items or specific food items needed.

With these much-needed funds it will help tremendously with the following:

Purchase of food items needed (these are mostly food items we don’t receive from donations which many families need such as fresh produce, milk (almond, soy or 2% or 1% milk), eggs, foods for families on restrictive diets—no salt, no sugar foods and foods for those with allergies;

Personal care items that families can't afford to buy (tissue, shampoo, soap, toothpaste, first aid items, detergent, etc.);

Baby care products when we are depleted (powder, baby wipes, formula, diapers)

Please contact us at [email protected] for further information or if you would like to donate foods and have our volunteers pick them up (if you live in metro Atlanta area).Jazak Allah Khair for any and all donations!