Our Daily Bread Food Pantry

Our healthy kids school & camp program (grades k-12) is specifically designed to help low-income children maximize their full potential by providing access to the nutritious choices needed for a healthy diet. For the 2024-2025 academic year, our daily bread food pantry served a total of 760 unduplicated kids by providing snack packs daily (cereal, granola bars, juice, milk and fresh fruits to supplement available breakfast, lunch and after-school options daily) for hungry children while in school and offered weekly weekend meal packs that provided 2-days of nutritious, easy-to-prepare and kid-friendly meals when they were not. Distributions at both the schools and camps are overseen by the staff and made as part of group activities specifically to offset the stigma often felt by food- insecure children.

Our special services for seniors program includes deliveries for the homebound and supplemental harry chapin food bank care and share food kits designed to address the specific nutritional requirements of any eligible guest over age 60. Our lunch with friends monthly gathering was initiated in 2017 and is designed to also feed the souls of seniors who are feeling isolated and alone. Co-sponsored by the ymca of collier county, marco lutheran church, and als pals, this very special event provides a free meal generously donated by local restaurants paid for/sponsored by individuals or clubs and local chefs prepare the food which is then served by volunteers. Speakers offer presentations on educational, entertaining, or informative topics that are completed with door prizes and camaraderie. .