Central Texas Food Bank expands home delivery program to vets, military members, those with disabilities
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HEADQUARTERS TEXAS
Tafel expands home deliveries
Central Texas Food Bank’s delivery program has been expanded to include people with disabilities, veterans, and active service members.
The program, which began on June 1 and delivers monthly boxes of healthy, non-perishable food contactless to families with children and adults aged 60 and over, is now available to these three additional groups. All groceries are free. Boxes contain enough food for 25 meals.
To determine the authorization and / or to register: centraltexasfoodbank.org/home-delivery-program.
Courtesy of the Central Texas Food Bank
AUSTIN
Mini-grants for food programs
The city of Austin has launched a food justice-focused mini-grant program that provides up to $ 3,000 in grants to projects that support people most affected by food injustice.
The program provides support to organizations that are driving change in the way our food is produced, sold and consumed. The Sustainability Office received project proposals that improve access to healthy food for underserved communities and address the structural inequalities that lead to disparate health and economic outcomes.
The grants fund projects including community-based “free fridges” offering groceries, paid edible food opportunities for underrepresented communities in education and journalism, and gardening workshops by and for people of color.
The fellows were the African American Youth Harvest Foundation; ATX-Free Dove Springs Refrigerator Project; Austin Area Urban League; Book Boosters – the Kitchen Diva Health Outreach; Black leadership collective; Black life vegetables; BRAVE communities; Colored communities united for racial justice; Drive a senior; Episcopal Mission El Buen Samaritano; Freedman’s Community / Freedman Eats; Good apple; Multicultural Refugee Coalition; From youth; Partner for education, agriculture and sustainability; Prepare for your door; Project life raft; Sunday lunch box; the Austin Common; and Working Group512.
More information: austintexas.gov/sustainability.
From news reports
BIRTHDAYS OF VETERANS IN WORLD WAR II
World War II and Korean War veteran Robert Waddell of Georgetown turned 93 on Wednesday.
World War II veteran James Albers of Austin turned 95 on Saturday.
World War II veteran Willis Sheets of Round Rock turned 94 on Sunday.
On Sundays, we print birthdays for World War II veterans from central Texas. Email their name, date of birth, and current hometown to communitynews@statesman.com.
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