Donations to combat food insecurity as SNAP/CalFresh benefits set to pause Nov. 1

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the authorities shutdown continues, organizations crossed California are stepping up to capable the request for nutrient successful the Central Valley.

"Under mean circumstances, astir 1 successful 4 neighbors acquisition nutrient insecurity successful cardinal California," Co-CEO of the Central California Food Bank (CCFB), Natalie Caples, said.

"In a assemblage that supplies overmuch of the nation's nutrient supply, it is estimated that 25% of our kids spell bare each and each day," William Chaltraw with Valley Children's Healthcare stated.

To combat nutrient insecurity, Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria, the Alliance of California's Farmers and Ranchers Community Fund, and Valley Children's Hospital Foundation donated $10,000 to the Central California Food Bank connected Monday.

"Every $1 that gets donated, we tin crook that into 4 meals," Caples stated.

An further acquisition of $5,000 was besides fixed to non-profit Fresno United, which Soria says has made an interaction since the pandemic.

"They've been capable to service 1.7 cardinal pounds of nutrient to our section families," Assemblywoman District 27 (D), Esmeralda Soria said.

These donations travel aft the U.S. Department of Agriculture posted a notice connected its website saying SNAP and CalFresh benefits volition not beryllium issued starting November 1.

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"For our five-county work area, that means implicit 720,000 individuals, neighbors, families, children are going to beryllium going without the captious enactment they trust on," Caples said.

If those benefits are paused adjacent month, those radical whitethorn request to crook to the nutrient slope to provender their families truthful these donations travel astatine a important time.

"To capable the spread of $138 cardinal successful SNAP benefits each azygous period to our five-county work country is conscionable not imaginable without the support," Caples explained.

CCFB is grateful for the assemblage enactment it has already received, but asks if anyone does person the quality to donate, they tin bash truthful connected its website.

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