How does the Greater Berks Food Bank help?

In 2010:

• 498,668 meals were served with food obtained from the GBFB at soup kitchens

• 833,470 meals were served with food obtained from the GBFB at shelters

• an average of 24,000 individuals were nourished with food received from a pantry on a monthly basis.

• Nearly 1,400 low-income senior citizens received a monthly food tote as part of the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program. The GBFB delivered these totes monthly to more than 60 sites located throughout Berks and Schuylkill Counties.

 

• The GBFB's network of charitable food programs provides emergency food for an estimated 60,800 different people annually.

 

• About 10,600 different people receive emergency food assistance within our network in any given week.

In the 2010-2011 school year:

• 99,360 meals were served at the 25 Kids Cafes located throughout the city of Reading. On the busiest evening, as many as 900 meals were served to children in need.

• More than 1,300 children a week participated in the Weekender Backpack Program at the nine program sites in Berks County (1 in the city of Reading, two in the Tulpehocken Area School District and one each in the Antietam, Conrad Weiser, Daniel Boone, Muhlenberg, Schuylkill Valley, and Wilson School Districts) and three program sites in Schuylkill County (Pottsville Area, Saint Clair Area and Shenandoah Valley School Districts).

 

• More than 20,000 bags of fresh produce and other nutritionally-balanced foods (totalling nearly 60,000 pounds of food) were distributed through our Produce for Kids program to elementary school students in the city of Reading.

Greater Berks Food Bank
1011 Tuckerton Court
Reading, PA 19605
610-926-5802
Fax 610-926-7638