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Approximately 27% of food produced in the United States goes to waste each year while millions of people go hungry. Loaves & Fishes works to change this contradiction. In 2009, we distributed 1,025,031 meals worth of food.
We serve Greenville County residents at risk of hunger and malnutrition; two thirds are single parent families with young children and 12% are senior citizens. We provide food through a network of emergency food providers in Greenville County. These organizations include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelter or residential programs, community centers and neighborhood distribution programs.
Mission
Loaves & Fishes meets the challenge of hunger by connecting willing donorsof perishable food with local human services agencies that use the food to feedthe hungry.
History
Loaves & Fishes was founded in Greenville, South Carolina in 1991 by local banker Sam Hunt who read a story in The New York Times about City Harvest, the food rescue program in New York City. Recognizing that a lot of food was also being thrown away in Greenville, Mr. Hunt contacted a few people he thought might be interested in starting such an organization.
In that first year, Loaves & Fishes rescued 25,000 pounds of food. Since that time, we have grown to rescue more than 1,000,000 pounds of food a year, the equivalent of one million meals. |
