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In Southeast North Carolina, 1 in 6 people face hunger –
1 in 4 of these are children.

Second Harvest Food Bank is the leading hunger relief organization for southeast North Carolina.

Serving Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett, Hoke, Robeson and Sampson counties

Second Harvest Food Bank: We See

We see a child able and eager to learn. We see people becoming self-sufficient, and we see families living with a little less worry. At Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina, we see people growing forward beyond the meal.

Because when people aren’t hungry, we see the great things they can achieve and the lives they can lead. We see the smiles and kids excelling in the classroom and beyond with reported improvements in test scores and positive behavioral gains. And we see kids being able to play and just be a kid throughout the weekend.

We see the success of kids being able to concentrate, learn, and grow,  and college students being able to focus on their studies and the careers that lie ahead. And we see the empowerment by teaching adults how to eat healthy and getting them on the road to self-sufficiency with a pathway out of poverty. At Second Harvest Food Bank, we see more than a meal.

And thanks to your support and generosity, Second Harvest Food Bank will continue growing forward beyond the meal.

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Our Association

Second Harvest is proud to work with Feeding America food banks across the region as part of Feeding the Carolinas. A strategic alliance of nine food banks and one recovery organization, Feeding the Carolinas unites North and South Carolina to ensure everyone in the region has equitable access to healthy food.

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Thank you
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[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] Our food pantry has been active for probably going on 40 years, and at least 35 of that, of those years, we’ve been associated with the Second Harvest Food Banks. We go down to the food bank, Second Harvest, pick up food, bring it up here, unload it, serve the people. We pick up a trailer load of canned goods and things like macaroni and elbows and spaghetti and so forth, and we load it all on the trailer. You can see we already have offloaded quite a bit already, so we come in with the trailer, then we have two different tables. Well, if I go back when I first started about 14 years ago, we served 25 households a week, and then going into the pandemic time-frame we were probably serving maybe 60 or 70, and so through the pandemic and afterwards, now we’re up to about 120 households.
[Teresa Murray, Volunteer] Like I said,  we’ve got a big variety of people here.
[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] About a third of the people that we serve are seniors, and maybe 25 are children, and quite-quite a few people have some form of disability.

[Roberta Butler, Volunteer] It’s good to see the people, and you see the same people come back, and know that there’s a need in the community.

[Joseph Williams, Volunteer] I come here to get some food because I was hungry, and I noticed all these people; elderly women, elderly men, or whatever, they couldn’t carry their bags, so I started carrying bags out to people’s cars, and four years later here I am still doing it.

[KJ Powell, Volunteer] It is the church’s largest outreach.

[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] People find out about us through the Department of Social Services, through Second Harvest, through word of mouth.

[Teresa Murray, Volunteer] I mean, I think we do a really good thing with our community, and I think our community really appreciates it. KJ’s wonderful with the people; when she talks to them, she knows everybody by their name by now because she’s been doing the book.

[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] She takes the names and all the information that we need for our monthly report on the children, adults, seniors, male, female, that sort of thing that we need to do our monthly report. She takes all that.

[KJ Powell, Volunteer] I can greet all of them, and you get to know them. You get to know what’s going on in their lives.

[Joseph Williams, Volunteer] Anything I can do to stop somebody from being hungry, I’m with it.

[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] And that’s what we are, we’re providing hope.

[Teresa Murray, Volunteer] It just feels good to give back.

[Roberta Butler, Volunteer] I enjoy volunteering and being able to give back.

[Joseph Williams, Volunteer] After we leave here, Steve and I, we load up a certain number of bags on the trailer. We go down to the hood, which is not far from here. Haymount Hill or The Heights, we go down in there and take bags to people who can’t get here.

[Teresa Murray, Volunteer] And see, we always leave four bags up here by the elevator, and that way if somebody comes after we’re closed, or they come during the week, they can get a bag and, then they have like little goodie bags sitting at the desk that they give to somebody if they need something. So we give out everything that we’re handing out.

[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] Second Harvest is probably 80 percent of what we’re handing out.

[KJ Powell, Volunteer] Second Harvest – we couldn’t do this without Second Harvest, there’s just absolutely no way. It makes a huge impact on what we’re able to provide to families.

[Steve Hill, Food Bank Director, Highland Presbyterian Church] As Second Harvest has things in abundance, they help us to provide to the community in

abundance. The staff at Second Harvest were always very friendly and helpful; it’s been a very warm relationship.

[KJ Powell, Volunteer] It just becomes a little bit of a family out here.

[Roberta Butler, Volunteer] If anybody needs a place to be and volunteer, be sure and come; we can always use the help.

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