Emergency assistance for food, counseling and other social services.
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Woodlawn Baptist Church
Westerly Area Rest Meals – Warm Center
West Warwick Senior Center
145 Washington Street West Warwick, RI 02893 401.822.4450
Provides a number of human services with food related services including: Senior Nutrition Meal Site, Meals on Wheels, monthly evening meals, and emergency food.
Westbay CAP Marketplace
211 Buttonwoods Avenue Warwick, RI 02886 401.732.4660
Open weekdays 8:30-4:30 Monday thru Friday and serves as a regional center for food security services. Households receive donated nutritious emergency food, nutritional information about healthy meal preparation, and are connected to other food security services, such as WIC, SNAP, USDA Commodities. An Intake Case Manager will help you complete a brief assessment form, and Marketplace staff will then help with your food selection. Programs include providing emergency food and USDA commodities.
We Share Hope
624 Main St, Warren, RI 02885 401.289.0448
Contact: President & Co-Founder, Stephen P. Martin
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Group of volunteers who distribute excess food to the poor, disabled, elderly etc. It is unique from other organizations in that its role is to locate, gather, and distribute food to groups that feed the poor, distressed, and the underprivileged.
Women Ending Hunger
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
200 Niantic Avenue, Providence, RI 02907 401.942.6325
Contacts: Mary Flynn, Ph.D., RD, LDN, and Susan Gustaitis, Executive Director of the Jonnycake Center of Peacedale
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The volunteer group Women Ending Hunger (WEH) works to create long-term solutions to the problem of hunger. Women Ending Hunger works on many issues, including those concerning nutrition education and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program. Under the leadership of Mary Flynn, Ph.D., RD, LDN, and Susan Gustaitis, Executive Director of the Jonnycake Center of Peacedale, WEH also works to educate the public and advocate around hunger issues.
Current projects include:
- Advocacy concerning issues of childhood nutrition and school meal programs
- Advocacy regarding the Farm Bill and its impact on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
- Participation in the Food Bank’s Speakers’ Bureau
- Volunteer opportunities for events and special programs
Why Hunger
505 Eighth Avenue Suite 2100 New York, NY 10018 212.629.8850 Hotline: 800.548.6479
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WHY promotes effective and innovative community.based solutions that create self.reliance, economic justice and food security. Their programs include Grassroots Action Network, Artists Against Hunger & Poverty and WHY Get Active Center.
World Food Programme
Ertharin Cousi, Executive Director Email Website Facebook
World’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. In emergencies, we get food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After the cause of an emergency has passed, we use food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded.
Born in 1961, WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. We work towards that vision with our sister UN agencies in Rome .. the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO.and the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD… as well as other government, UN and NGO partners.
On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 75 countries each year. About 11,500 people work for the organization, most of them in remote areas, directly serving the hungry poor.