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We were able to partner with seven different organizations to help serve our communities through the Farmers to Family program, these partners include churches, schools, apartment complexes, retirement centers and daycare centers.
Since inception in September 2014 Inprem Holistic Community Resource Center has served a large number of families. In 2020 alone Inprem distributed 3,686,555.19Lbs of food. These are the statistics of service provided, households served 34,640 , zip codes 124. Number of people who benefited are 134,240, a total of 1,195,236 meals were given out. According to
Feeding America
the average cost of a meal in Ohio is $2.86. This means the value of total meals provided averages $3,418,375. The current monetary need as stated by feeding America is $757,327,000, Inprem is currently taking care of 2.2% of the current hunger needs. There is still more to do why the quest to put in more work is required of all of us.
The services Inprem offers goes beyond feeding Ohioans, Inprem provides free gently used clothing for individuals of all ages and genders. This service is available on our produce market days.
Food insecurity is a topic that needs a lot more attention than it’s currently getting. According to V.M Salgoacar Colloge of law the right to food is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, as part of the right to an adequate standard of living. Right to Food is classified into two components – the right to adequate food and fundamental right to be free from hunger. In Ohio 1,547,110 people are facing hunger and of them 448,600 are children. People facing hunger in Ohio are estimated to report needing $757,327,000 more per year to meet their food needs as stated by Feeding America As Paul Prudhomme stated, “ You do not need a silver fork to eat good food”. No one should go to bed on an empty stomach hence the relentless effort Inprem puts in to bridge the hunger gap.
Inprem Holistic Community Resource Center has constantly been putting in the work five days a week, and on the third Saturday of every month for almost seven years now in an effort to provide food for families in Ohio. Inprem offers a daily walk-in pantry service with no appointments and no zip code restrictions. A drive- through strategy was adopted during the pandemic as food is an essential need and this style of service delivery has come to stay.
Feature on Staff Volunteers Part 1 of 3 Inprem’s success is attributed to volunteers and sponsors. In this edition we will like to throw more light on our staff volunteers….