A grant provided to Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry has allowed the organization to provide 5,200 meals to people without food security.
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry was given $1,700 last November through Monroe County Council’s Sophia Travis Community Service Grant. The money went to their “Meat" the Need program, which supplies meat to local food banks, according to a press release from Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry.
The “Meat” the Need program provides meat to organizations by paying the processing fees on donated livestock, allowing farmers or hunters to get the meat processed by a butcher with no cost to either of them, after which the meat is donated. According to the press release, this grant helped process 1,300 pounds of meat — creating 5,200 meals — for hunger relief organizations.
Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry has 90 participating meat processors in 85 Indiana counties. In the last six years, they have distributed nearly 757,000 pounds of meat to food banks, the equivalent of more than 3 million meals, according to the press release.
Sarah Gardner
