Food shelves provide food and personal care products at no cost to people in need throughout the entire state of Minnesota. They receive their food from donations, and low-fee purchases from the food banks. In 2007, Minnesota’s 300 food shelves distributed over 47 million pounds of food to those in need, making 1.9 million individual visits.
Families and individuals use food shelves for a variety of reasons: high housing costs, lack of affordable child care, high energy bills, recent unemployment or underemployment, high cost of prescription medicine or other short term crises. 1 in 17 Minnesotans relies on a food shelf sometime in the course of a year.
Web Site: http://www.mnhungerpartners.org/
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