KSWT News Story….Consistant need for YCFB

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:09 +0000

To our Friends at KSWT,Thank You for bringing this to our Community and bringing awareness of the needs of our friends, neighbors and families who are struggeling with hunger each and every day.

Story by Felicia Martinez, Reporter – bio | email

Yuma, AZ August 17 – With the unemployment rate through the roof in the Desert Southwest more and more people are turning to food banks to provide a meal for their families.

Jody Hasty the Resource Development Supervisor at the Yuma Community Food Bank says “Our shelves our getting bare our bank accounts are getting low and we have just seen a huge need in our community”

Hasty says in the last six months there has been a drastic increase of people the food bank has assisted. She says, “Back in March we saw approximately 11,000 people and in July it was over 16,000. On a monthly basis we are actually looking at 600 to 700 new families that we have never seen before.”

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