El Paso has a huge number of people who don’t have enough to eat. The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank\u00a0 is trying to help them but they need your help to do it.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: City Of El Paso Free 2nd Hand Store\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n I’ve been hosting the State Line Music Series at the State Line Restaurant this year and the\u00a0El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank<\/a>\u00a0is this years beneficiary. I’ve learned a lot about them at these,\u00a0(free), concerts<\/a> and I want to share that with you. There’s more to them than you might think.<\/p>\n The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank<\/a> is the only food bank in El Paso and they not only help feed El Pasoans but those in other areas … it’s a massive task.<\/p>\n As the regional distribution center, we serve as the hub for\u00a065 partner pantries\u00a0across\u00a0three counties: El Paso, Culberson, and Hudspeth.\u00a0We provide food assistance each year to over\u00a0160,000 food-insecure individuals\u00a0in our community, where\u00a02 in 5 people\u00a0experience food insecurity. – elpasoansfightinghunger.org<\/a><\/p>\n Every morning when they open up, there’s already a long line that began forming hours before – and it’s not just the homeless or underprivileged.<\/p>\n Who Does The\u00a0\u00a0El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank<\/a>\u00a0help?<\/p>\n The homeless and poor people in our area need help but they’re not the only ones. Your neighbor may be struggling. Maybe YOU are having trouble – they’re there for you too. Summer breaks can also bring extra burdens …<\/p>\n As they themselves say, we’re all only 1 step from being “food insecure”. Job loss, sudden illness or medical issue, divorce, stock market plunge – you name it. Things happen and even the well off can suddenly find themselves having to decide what’s more important – a car payment, medical insurance, medicine, etc … or food.<\/p>\n I had several friends who recently found themselves in a bind during the government shutdown. They were doing really good but suddenly, just like that, they had no income.<\/p>\n Helping The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank Is Easy<\/p>\n There are a number of ways you can help but cash is king. They will gladly accept donated food items but they can do a lot more with money than they can with the food itself.<\/p>\n Thanks to special deals with grocers and food suppliers, government grants and other things, they can turn 1 dollar into 7 meals<\/a>. One dollar. Imagine what they could do if everyone donated that buck? With a population of almost 700,000, only half of us, at a dollar a head, could give them around $350,000.<\/p>\n That’s 2,450,000 meals.<\/p>\n Now, imagine if we could go $5. Or $10 or $20 … the numbers get crazy.<\/p>\n They can also really, REALLY use some volunteers. To learn more, click here<\/a> or call\u00a0(915) 298-0353<\/a>.<\/p>\n 43 Rock Stars Being Dads: Photo Gallery<\/p>\n See some of rock’s biggest stars proudly showing off their children.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Matthew Wilkening<\/p>\n 22 Scathing Rock Star Breakup Quotes<\/p>\n This is what happens when classic rock legends get upset.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Matt Wardlaw<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso has a huge number of people who don’t have enough to eat. The El Pasoans Fighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-345820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}