“I thought I didn’t deserve help, that I wasn’t poor enough or there were other people who needed it more than me,” explained Maria, a student at San Diego City College, when asked why she hadn’t applied for CalFresh earlier. This said by a young woman who is a full-time student working three jobs, doing [...]
Almost everyone who encounters a Feeding San Diego farmers market on college campuses has trouble believing that everything is free. As humans just trying to get by with our daily lives in the fast-moving, hustling 21st Century, we can be forgiven for sometimes being a little suspicious or cynical. After all, there’s an adage drummed [...]
Feeding San Diego & Mesa College Give a Primer on CalFresh Between the rising cost of tuition, paying for books, housing, transportation, utilities, phones, and more, affording food is often the first place students make budget cuts. It’s become cliché that students subsist on ramen, but it’s a topic that can’t be ignored or joked away [...]
The aroma of Italian seasoning comes from the community room as children and their families arrive at the Lincoln Acres Branch Library for lunch. On today’s menu: homemade meatball subs, cucumbers, fresh fruit and milk. “I like that the meals are healthy and variety of types of meals,” one of the mothers remarked, as her [...]
"We are excited, we are so so excited,” beamed Ariana, a social worker at Valley High School in Escondido. “Families are out here getting food and all we see are smiles." Students and families streamed into one of Feeding San Diego’s five new school distribution sites, gathering tomatoes, peaches, corn, and various snacks to bring [...]
The bell rings. Most students start to cheer and shout, “School’s out for summer!” But there are too many children who worry and wonder, “Now where will I get my lunch from?” Children across San Diego County rely on school food programs as a critical source for their everyday meals. Here in San Diego, more [...]
In February, the Feeding San Diego CalFresh team held two same-day workshops with the County of San Diego at God’s Extended Hand, one of FSD's partners. CalFresh helps low income families purchase healthy groceries each month. FSD and the County of San Diego’s Health Coverage Access team have worked together since 2015 to provide same-day services at [...]
Our Feeding Kids Program Team attended the Out-of-School Time Nutrition Summit in Upland, California on January 24. The summit was hosted by the California Summer Meal Coalition to provide networking and learning opportunities as well as discuss ideas on how to provide kids and families with food and resources when kids who are out of school, missing much [...]
The second round of agency grants awarded $88,000 in funding to 19 partners. Grants were made possible by Walmart, Feeding San Diego and other partners. Grants were used to provide refrigeration, shelving, carts, bins, and other hard assets to increase perishable food storage and improve overall network capacity. The freezer that Catholic Charities Vista Food Resource [...]
The head of one of our partner agencies, Church of St Luke in East County, received a huge national honor in December. Carlos Cuellar was selected as the 2016 Knights of Columbus VAVS Male Volunteer of the Year. VAVS is a program through the Veterans Administration that allows veterans like Carlos to give back to [...]
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