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Hunger is invisible but the Utah Food Bank knows it’s all around us

Salt Lake Tribune | April 13, 2018

Related Topics: Invisibility, Hunger, Ginette Bott

Some 325,000 Utahns face it each day — one in five children in the Beehive State aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from.

That’s why the Utah Food Bank’s mobile pantry makes 18 stops weekly in areas that are “food deserts,” or places not served by traditional food panties.

Last year, the food bank distributed 39 million pounds of food — the equivalent of 32 million meals — to 149 emergency food panties statewide, said Ginette Bott, the food bank’s chief developer officer.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteers of the Utah Food Bank pack food boxes in the parking lot of the LDS Church at 1860 S. 300 E. in Salt Lake City Friday April 13. Each box has a variety of canned food, fresh vegetables and other staples. It's one of 18 locations the bank operates to get food out to the food insecure. An army of volunteers make the distrbution system work. Walmart, Feeding America and Utah Food Bank are teaming up during the month of April to fight hunger through an online and in-store donation campaign.
(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteers of the Utah Food Bank pack food boxes in the parking lot of the LDS Church at 1860 S.
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