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Harvest Food Bank provides many different programs to South Louisiana
in response to their many different needs.
 Surplus
Food Program
The Surplus Food Program is a collaboration between the food bank
and food manufacturers, distributors, grocery stores, brokers, and
farmers located throughout our 23 parish service area in south Louisiana.
Food is donated to the food bank and then distributed to our member
agencies to be given to needy Louisianans. The food donated is usually
unmarketable (yet safe and nutritious) surplus such as close code
dates, dented cans or damaged boxed food, mislabeled product, fruits
and vegetables not harvested by farmers, etc. For more information
about this program or to make a commercial food donation, please
call Ken Gravener, Food Procurement Manager, at 504-734-1322,
ext. 228.
 Kid’s
Café
Kids Cafe provides a safe place
for the children living in low-income areas of the city to get a
nutritious meal, hospitality industry training, and other educational
opportunities to help open their worlds to new possibilities for
personal growth and achievement.
 BackPack
Through the Backpack Program, children at risk of hunger are provided
with food in a backpack, or "Lagniappe Packs," to take
home for nutritional support for the weekends and out-of-school
times, until school and access to the Federal breakfast and lunch
programs resume. Backpacks or other carriers are stocked with nutritious,
child-friendly, easy-to-prepare food. They are typically distributed
on Fridays or the last day before a holiday/vacation in a discreet
manner. Distribution sites are schools and places where children
normally congregate before going home, e.g. churches, community
centers, Kids Café sites, etc.
Emergency Food Box
This program is a direct service supplying
food to individuals and families in temporary crisis. Community
food drives generate non-perishable food that is used to fill the
boxes. Food is given to agencies to distribute under guidelines
of the program.
 Mobile
Pantry
The Mobile Pantry is a rolling food supply for those in need in
the outlying parishes of the New Orleans area. The Mobile pantry
was introduced as a solution to a big problem: remote areas outside
of New Orleans face an under representation of services available
for individuals in need of food assistance. The Mobile Pantry comes
to people in those areas who may lack the means to get to the nearest
food pantry, usually many miles away. This roving pantry comes to
their community and offers the opportunity for Second Harvest to
reach out to populations previously underserved.
9-A-Day The Head Start Way
9-A-Day refers to the recommended number of fruits and vegetables
the average person should consume daily. The program makes it so
that selected schools receive deliveries of produce, as well as
planned activities from an LSU AgCenter recommended preschool nutrition
curriculum, and nutritious snacks and meals prepared by the Head
Start food staff.
 Second
Helpings
This program is an innovative and effective program that distributes
food, that would otherwise go to waste, to people in need. Second
Helpings, our prepared and perishable food rescue program gathers
surplus prepared foods from restaurants, hotels, caterers, and conventions.
It distributes food to hungry people in our community through established
on-site feeding programs. This program also supplements the Kids
Cafes. Contact Ken Gravner, Food Procurement Manager at 504-734-1322
x228.
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