Welcome
The Fuquay Varina Emergency Food Pantry is a faith-based organization whose mission is to help as many area families as possible to ensure that they are not handicapped by hunger.
In 2011, we handed out over 7,000 boxes to needy families, which helped feed over 22,000 men, women and children, primarily in Fuquay Varina, Willow Spring and Holly Springs.
Upcoming Events, Food Drives and Pantry News:
Our supplies from the government have been reduced. We are not scheduled to receive any PEANUT BUTTER – one of our major sources of extra protein. We are also in need of canned meat or fish, like chicken and tuna. Beans, green vegetables, corn and soup are also in need, however peanut butter is our biggest concern at present.
Speaking of peanut butter. We had a generous donation of peanut butter recently after a young man from a local church organized a food drive of his own. Thank you to Rhyne Thornton for his efforts to help others in need.
Rhyne displays some of the peanut butter jars he collected.
Rhyne wasn’t the only one organizing and collecting for the food pantry. We also received a generous donation from Matthew Patel. We are very thankful to the many youth in our area that have gone out of their way to do something special for others.
Matthew displays some of the food he collected for the pantry.
April graced many fields with strawberries and our volunteers took to the fields to pick them. They returned to the pantry on April 16th with about 350 pounds of ripe, delicious strawberries to be handed out to our clients.
This quarter our supplies and purchases include hamburger meat. Therefore, donations of packages such as hamburger helper will help them stretch their ground beef, or you might consider hamburger buns or condiments during your food drives.
Besides donations of food, please keep in mind that we are spending more funds than usual to make up for the decrease in government supplies. Therefore, monetary donations are always greatly appreciated and put to good use to buy those things we need. All donations go toward food and staples for our clients, or for maintenance of the food pantry facilities. None of our board or our volunteers receive a salary.
Volunteer duties include collecting and sorting donations
Loading boxes for individual families