Charleston Currents

FOCUS: Lowcountry Food Bank gets $120,000 in grants to fight hunger

Staff reports | The Lowcountry Food Bank has been awarded $120,000 in community investment grants for 2019-2022 from Trident United Way, the organization announced last week. The grants will help the nonprofit agency to conduct additional fresh produce distributions, implement nutrition education and provide child hunger relief to residents in the Charleston tri-county area.

Through the proposed Healthy Foods Initiative, the food bank is expected to achieve the following objectives through these grants in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties:

* Distribute more than 4.8 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables in the community through direct-to-client distributions to more than 102,000 low-income and food-insecure children, adults, and seniors;
* Conduct at least 175 farmers’ market-style fresh produce distributions annually in underserved, high-need communities;
* Provide more than 900 children each year with fresh fruits and vegetables …

by Charleston Currents · 06/24/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

FEEDBACK: Hollings helped stir nation to confront hunger

Herbert J. Hartsook: ‘Thank you for drawing attention to the continuing problem of hunger. Years ago, state senator Isadore Lourie said that Senator Hollings “put a spotlight on that issue probably as the only man in the state at that time that could have done it. … He had the prestige and the stature and a tremendous political following in the state. I think through that mechanism and through the force of his dynamic personality, he was able to get the conscience of South Carolinians stirred up and concerned.””

by Charleston Currents · 07/17/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

BRACK: South Carolina is still hungry

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Summer’s bounty of everything from juicy red tomatoes to eggplants, squashes and corn fill farm stands and grocery stores across the state. At this time of year, you’ve never seen so much good fresh food.

But its availability belies a cold, hard fact: South Carolina is hungry despite decades of food assistance programs. But without them, things would be way, way worse.