Linda Hampton Program

Linda Hampton is a great inspiration as the Director of the Marana Food Bank.  We learned some amazing fact:

•  2100 families a month receive food from the Marana Community Food Bank,
• There has been 182% increase in clients the last two years — sounds like we better start helping a little more
• One out of Five people live below the poverty level in Pima County
• 35% of the clients are Children, 11% are seniors
• It take 14 volunteers to open the doors each day
• The Food Bank receives 30% of the funding from the Government, that is going down every year
• Now this is amazing out of every $$$ donated on 3 cents of it goes to administrative costs (how do they do that)? VOLUNTEERS
• The Rotary Club of Marana has donated almost $4000 in the green Food Bank bucket — keep it up group

 Linda told us a couple great stories - There is a group of people who own a race horse and when they win the winning goes to the Marana Food Bank, a little girl donated the money she earned at a lemonade stand and one inmates donates $7.00 a month