Food Services

Target Hunger's 12 food pantries, 11 senior day sites, and home delivery program serve more than 8,000 people each month. Each pantry has a volunteer coordinator who oversees the volunteers that distribute more than one million pounds of food each year to Target Hunger clients.

Prospective Target Hunger clients are carefully interviewed to determine specific need and eligibility. Interviewers also educate clients on city-wide programs that offer other services to insure that each client has the means to meet all of the needs of his/her family. Interviewers also impress the importance of self-sufficiency to Target Hunger clients, encouraging them to take part in the numerous social services offered by Target Hunger.

Our "Yes you can - We believe in you" message motivates our clients. We give those who have fallen on hard times a chance to become productive and the opportunity to learn how to believe in themselves and their community.

Target Hunger partners with the Houston Independent School District to provide community-based vocational training for Special Education student from four area high schools. The students help prepare items for distribution on pantry days. This partnership not only helps build self-esteem but instills a sense of pride as students are participating in an activity that helps their own community.

For more information on the Food Pantry Services and/or volunteer opportunities in our pantries, please contact Tiphany Burrell at (713) 226-4954 or tburrell@targethunger.org

TARGET HUNGER PANTRIES

1.        Anderson Memorial COGIC
2.        Berea M.B.C.
3.        Cleme Manor (Coke St.) Apt.
4.        Denver Multi-Service Center (Mobile)
5.        Greater True Vine M.B.C.
6.        Hester House
7.        Langston Family Life Center
8.        Law Memorial COGIC
9.        Mt. Vernon UMC
10.      Our Mother of Mercy C.C.

11. St. Francis of Assisi C.C.
12. St. Peter Claver