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“The community has my back.”

This is Dale wearing a blue shirt voluteering at the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Park Café is a soup kitchen run by the Seeds Center of Maple Park. Twice a week, grateful families and individuals like Dale can count on receiving a hot meal prepared by their West Pullman neighbors.

“This place doesn’t just fill your stomach,” Dale says. “This place gives me a sense of hope—like the community has my back.”

In recent months, traffic at local food pantries has been up 26% from the prior year. This averages more than 200,000 household visits per month across the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s network. Your help is needed now to ensure everyone we serve has access to the nutritious food their families need.

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Due to a recent surgery, Dale isn’t currently working, which makes it a challenge to afford groceries. But Park Café helps fill in the gaps, he says, and provides a chance for him to connect with people from the community he calls home.

Decades ago, Park Café began serving home-cooked meals to under-resourced older adults in the community but later broadened its mission to include other neighbors experiencing hunger or hardship.

Today, Park Café and the Food Depository work together to ensure healthy food is available to everyone they serve—44 percent of whom live well below the federal poverty level.

Thank you for partnering with the Food Depository to reach neighbors who are struggling to put food on the table!

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