by hungerintervention | Mar 1, 2019 | Blog, Participant Stories, Senior Community Meals, Volunteers
Patty Young has been a participant of HIP’s Senior Meal at the Lake City Community Center for the past five years, and a volunteer for the past six months. She loves the meals and the friends she has found there and is a faithful attendee and active volunteer....
by hungerintervention | Sep 20, 2018 | Blog, Participant Stories, Senior Community Meals
Lars is one of our regular guests at the Lake City Senior Days. Always a personable ray of sunshine, we sat down to hear more about his background. Read about it below! Lars is one of those people whom you instantly like. He has an infectious optimism,...
by hungerintervention | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog, Educational Programs, Participant Stories
“Why eat juice from a can when I can eat the whole fruit?” “In my country, all the food we get is natural.” These are just some of the comments from participants at our food justice classes at Literacy Source this summer. Literacy Source offers...
by Srijan Chakraborty | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog, Participant Stories
This story is based on my conversation with one of our guests at our Senior Lunch Program. James is not his real name which I changed for anonymity. – Srijan “I lost everything” – James almost choked up as he uttered those words. I was sitting across him at the...