Heart Of Alabama Food Bank

Within our service area, 21% of the population are food insecure. Of that total, 24% of adults and 35% of children are living in poverty. One of our most effective strategies in combating this pervasive problem is our mobile pantry program. This program is designed to go to where the neediest are, and distribute food directly through our partner agencies. This program allows us to target remote communities in alabama's "black belt" area (chronically among the most poverty-stricken regions in the nation) as well as metropolitan areas. In fy24, we distributed 32,261,685 pounds of food through this outreach effort.

Approximately 23% of seniors (60 years & older) in our service area are living in poverty. In our most impoverished county, that percentage jumps to over 36%. In order to help offset the needs of our seniors, we established a senior supplement program that, in fy24, provided between 35-45 pounds of nutritious food on a monthly basis to 848 seniors. We also provide two extra boxes in november and december specifically targeting the preparation of holiday meals.