Southwest Michigan food pantries continue to fight the good fight. But many rural-area churches and other nonprofit groups also are seeing the need for food assistance in their communities and have taken action to create food pantries to try and meet that demand.
Vicki West, secretary at Oakwood Baptist Church in St. Joseph, said the church opened its pantry in summer 2009 after noticing larger pantries in the surrounding area weren’t as easily accessible to those in need.
“There was kind of this big gap that we wanted to try to fill,” West said.
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