2011 PAPER PLATE CAMPAIGN:

Real stories from FAKH clients at local food distributions

 

• My husband and are so grateful for the help from Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland.  Please allow this program to continue.

• Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland has helped my family when my husband’s medications are so expensive – beyond insurance – this helps us to survive.

• This is my first time here.  I am very grateful to have learned about this program.  This will help my family in these very tough economic times.

• This food bank has helped me and my grandson a lot.

• If it wasn’t for this program, my dad and I wouldn’t have as much food as we do. - Rachel

• This is my first time doing this and it is helpful because I am currently unable to provide completely for myself.  - Debra

• This program is really a big help to make it through the month.  It’s appreciated so much.

• The food bank has very good programs.  It has helped me many times in my time of need.

• I have grandchildren through the summer.  This food is sometimes the only food I have.  I’m so glad this program is here.  I haven’t had to worry anymore what I am going to eat.  Thank God.

• This program is needed because of loss of jobs, little or no social security or the fact that money or food stamps don’t last in large families.  I need it because I am elderly and my food stamps and social security is not enough.  Thank God for this program.  - Emma


• We as a community are so thankful for this food.  Without it, I would not be able to eat.  Thank you so much.

• This program has really helped me and my family a whole lot.  Thank you so much for everything you do.  God bless.

• This program has helped a lot in keeping food and fresh fruit for me and my children.  It keeps my boys from being hungry.  It keeps them healthy and that keeps us all happy.  -Tracy

• Just moved to the area and needed some help with food.  –Jerry

• The food bank has really helped in our time of need, especially since my husband has had cancer.  It helps feed us and thank you so much.

• I’m on Social Security and this program helps me supplement my food because I have very little money left for food after bills are paid.  – Virginia

• It helps out my family in hard times. – C.W.

• The food helps every month to get by.  – Terry

• Thanks from the heart for the food program.  We need this program. -Richard

• This program has helped us so much because I have a handicapped daughter and my husband and I are retired.  He works part-time to make ends meet.  Believe me, by the end of the month, we don’t have much.  My husband, my daughter and myself have health problems and my husband is on a medication that costs $1,200.00 a month and insurance only takes care of so much.  -W.B.

• Thank you for the help.  I really need this.  – G.J.

• Thanks for the help with food.  This is a big help to me.  -V.K.

• I need help with food.  I am low-income and very appreciative.  – D.B.

• This program has given me food when I would be going hungry at times before.  I get $40.00 in food stamps a month.  I have a lot of doctor bills to pay and this allows me to eat good wholesome food.  Every little bit helps when you could be hungry.  Medicine also comes into play.  I am disabled after years of working.  Thanks.  -T.H.

• A God send to my family due to medical and mental illnesses.  Thank you for all the help you provide.  -R.R.

• If it were not for the CSFP (Senior Program), we would do without food for about 10 days per month.  -L.H.

• The food bank is a God sent gift!  I am on a low/fixed income and there are many things I would do without if it wasn’t for the program.  Thanks and God Bless.

• My children and I need a little extra help.  My job has laid me off and these are wonderful people that are so kind to help us.  Thank you.  -Tabitha

• I’m a college graduate that worked all my life, raised four children, but now I am disabled.  I can’t afford my medicine because I make too much at $700.00 a month.  So, I have to decide this month, do I eat or get my meds?  We give food to many other countries and I am proud to do so, but we need it here now.  Help our farmers by helping us.  We should be giving our elderly and disabled some help with food and medications.  Kentucky is a proud state, but not so proud in a food line.  –S.F.

• This program has helped my family a lot.  We appreciate it all.

• The food bank helps save money on groceries and helps feed my family at the end of the month.

• I would starve without this food.  My social security check will only cover my utility bills.  I am disabled and 73 years old with a broken hip and leg.  I need this food and this program.  These people are wonderful and I love them and their help.  -M.V.

• I do not know what we would do without the help these people do for us.  The food is very helpful.  -S.S.

• I am on disability.  I do not qualify for food stamps.  If it weren’t for this food, I would have no resources for groceries.  All my disability goes to pay for house bills.  –P.F.

• It helps me get through the month.

• It helps me to feed the needs of my family.  –N.G.

• This program is helping me feed my children.  I am unemployed due to hardships.  I really thank God for this program and without it, we would struggle even more.

• This program helps greatly for me and my wife.  I am on SSI and my wife only works part-time.

• This program is great for people who are out of work because of lack of full-time jobs and for the sick and disabled.  Glad this program is here.

• I really appreciate this program.  It helps me so much.

• This food bank is the only way that I can make it because I don’t have food to last me all month and I drink a lot of water before I go to bed to get my stomach full.

• It will be greatly appreciated.  My husband died and it is very hard to make it with all the bills.  Thank you.

• The food bank gives me a better variety and more food choices.  Supplies food I need.  Thank you.  –B.B.

• My son, who is mentally challenged, and I live on a very limited budget.  I am so thankful for this program since I am a drug felon and can’t draw food stamps.  The food bank is my only source of getting food.  I had a heart attack on December 10^th and can’t work much.  I am 55.  – M.D.

• This means food for part of the month for me and other seniors. – Anna

• This food programs means the world to me and my children.  It means the difference of them going to bed hungry or with something in their stomachs.  – S.L.

• I appreciate everything you do for me.  If I can’t eat it, my grandbabies eat it.

• Food is deeply appreciated and so looked forward to.  It’s nutritional, which I enjoy.

• This program is much needed to my family.  – Doris

• This program has been beneficial to me as it provides products that cannot be bought in stores.  –Joyce

• Thank you.  This program is a benefit for the needy.  There is room for improvement.  Thanks.

• The food bank has helped me to have food when my cabinet is very bare.  – Margaret

• I am on short-term disability.  It’s hard to raise three kids on that.  This program has helped greatly.

• The food bank has helped me so much.  I am a single woman and on a limited income, so this helps me so much.  Thank you.

• If it wasn’t for Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland, it would be difficult to eat.  My income doesn’t allow for much.  They have been a real blessing.  – A.H.

• This program is a God sent.  If it wasn’t for the help we get here, dinner at my house in the later part of the month would be a sad affair.

• This is the first time we have been here.  It helps people with food that they can’t afford to buy.  – Jesse

• The food bank has helped us because we are low income and it helps with buying groceries.  – C.S.

• With the rise in food prices, these commodities come in handy and take us through the month.

• This food has been very helpful on a fixed income.  Thank you.  –Deloris

• I am very grateful for the help I receive.  It sure does help.  -I.J.S.

• The food bank has helped me in every way.  It made it possible for me to eat better and somewhat healthy too.  I thank God for the program and ask that I am able to be a part of the program.  -Patricia

• The program is so important to my family to survive.  It feeds us as I am no longer working.  -R.P.

• When I had nowhere to turn, the N.G. was here for me.

• I thank you so much for this program!  It helps me to eat better.  Thank you.  God bless.  –Judy

• I am on disability.  My husband hurt his back real bad at work and was out 6-weeks.  There is no insurance so he couldn’t go to the doctor.  He was out too long and they didn’t let him come back.  So, now he’s looking for work.  Food banks have helped us tremendously and I thank God for it.


• We are on a fixed income and the food bank has been very helpful.

• This program helps provide necessities which frees up monies to buy other necessities.

• This food bank helps us very much.  We couldn’t make it from month to month without it.

• The food that I get helps me keep food on my table and food at my house when money is very short.  – I.J.

• I really thank you a lot for the food.  It helps a lot.

• Thank you very much for the food.  It helps out a lot.  The way it is done is very helpful.  –Nancy

• This program is good for us that can’t get around.  We appreciate it very much.  – Thelma

• I’m unemployed and it helps out a lot with things we could not afford.  -W.M.

• This program helps me eat all month.  –Roger

• This program helps me have nutrition the rest of the month. – Willow

• This program has helped our family greatly and I don’t know how we would have made it without this program.  –Dale

• My brother lives on SSD and gets $804.00 a month.  He gets less than $20 food stamps.  Without this program, he would go without food part of the month.

• I wouldn’t be able to eat right without your help.

• The economy is so bad, we need the help.

• Ms. Marianne is 77 years old and has one lung and is on oxygen.  She lives in government housing and is very deserving and needs all the help she can get.  Thank you a million times for helping her.

• This program is so important to me and my wife.  We are both disabled and now my wife is fighting cancer.  Without this program, we could not get the nourishment we both need.

• Program is important to me because I need help in this economy.  I am a senior, also disabled.  Program is very important to me.  – Tom

• People struggling to make ends meet and disability does not pay enough to feed or help support us.  This helps out a lot with meeting our needs.         -Teresa

• There are so many people out of work, this program comes in great.  Thank God for this program.  – Doris

• This helps because at the end of the month, this food is much needed.  Thanks so very much.

• The food program helps me a lot.  Please don’t cut it.  Thank you.

• The food bank has helped out my family in the time of need when no one else would.  We are very glad that it exists and would be disappointed if it was to disappear.  – Gary

• The food bank program helps me and my granddaughter.  As expenses rise, we buy less groceries and need help with food.  – Anna

• This program is important to me because I need the food they give.

• I live on $334 a month.  I live by myself.  The food program picks up where my stamps run out.  –Linda

• I am a Veteran.  I am disabled.  This program helps with my food budget.

• Funds are low…helps.  Thank God for the food banks.  Thanks.

• I love to get a little extra food every month to feed my family.  I’d love to get some cheese, but it’s only for seniors.  Thanks a lot!

• I think this is important to me to take care of my family since I’m not able to work.  – Sandy

• Since my disability, my husband lost our insurance and we have to live on less than $1,000 a month and we can now stretch our food budget.

• This program is very important to me.  Without it, not just me, but a lot of seniors would run short by the end of the month.  We need this program very much.  – Charlotte

• I am on SSSI and it helps until you get paid.  I appreciate the program and the people.  – Wanda

• We live on a fixed income; 1 job and 1 SSI.  The food bank helps to extend our cash so we can buy needed meds. and toiletries for our household. -Denise

• We live on a fixed income and the food bank has helped us so much with a newborn baby.  It’s amazing to have a program that is as wonderful as this one.  – Katherine

• I think this program is great.  I receive food stamps and by the end of the month, I’m very low on food.  This program helps me.

• We are low-income.  My husband lost his job after 35 years.  He took a low paying job.

• I think this program is necessary.  I am on a fixed income and I have a hard time making ends meet and depend on this program greatly.
• The food that I receive each month from the “Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland” program and the food pantry in Etown is necessary to my existence.  – Shirley

• I like the food bank.  Because since my husband passed, I have less money and it really helps me with my needs.  I’m really glad that this is here for us.  –C.W.

• Senator:  I am on SS and have less than $1,000 to live on.  I need the groceries to help feed my family.  C.O.

• I am a homebound woman.  The food bank provides food to help me stay healthy.  – Verna

• This program helps me.  I can’t work.  – Peggy

• This program helps me feed my family and the food is good for you. -Margaret

• This program is important to us so we can have juice and things that we cannot afford otherwise.  –George

• This is a great program.  It helps meet ends to a long month.  –Rita

• The food bank has helped me a lot because I’m an older person and I am on a fixed income.  –Don

• I am a homeless man and really in need of some help with food and clothing.  Thank you for any help.

• I live by myself.  I am on a fixed income.  The food bank helps me with food and to have groceries.

• This program is very important to me and my family because it helps us with our food bill.  – P.S.

• Please keep this program going.

• If it wasn’t for this program, I would surely have to choose between food or medicine.  I am a widow and live on a very fixed income.  - Sarah

• Without this program, my mother would do without food for days or medicine.  – H.R.

• I’m disabled and trying to take care of my mother-in-law.  –J.J.

• My job has been cut and I make less money and get less hours now.  Without this food assistance, my family would not have enough food, especially the fresh vegetables or fruit.

• Why Feeding America is so important to me:  It helps me, but the main reason I see other people getting help with their food.  I thank God for people who care.  –T.

• I am 63 years old and need the food each month to eat.  I am glad the program gives me food since I can’t afford food on my Social Security/low-income.  Expenses go up, but Social Security stays the same.  – Rita C.

• I came here to get help that is very needed for me and my son.  Without these programs, there are times that we don’t have food or help from family.  -C.L.

• I am on disability and this program really helps me with food for the month.  I don’t drive or get food stamps.  A friend brings me every month.  –Melissa N.

• Without this program, I would not be able to offset my income.  Thank you.

• Without this program, I would be lost.  It makes sure I have food on my table, which I wouldn’t have.  Thank you.  Erica W.

• This programs helps me and my family.  –William T.