Gleaners Food Bank sets open enrollment of food program in Putnam County April 29
Through the USDA and the State of Indiana, Gleaners serves low-income seniors via the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP). Income eligible seniors accepted into the program receive a monthly 40-pound box of supplemental food through the program.
Seniors 60 and over with a household income below 130 percent of poverty (for a single person living alone, income would need to be below $1,245 a month for additional members add $436) may apply for the program.
In order to apply for the program, applications will be taken on Monday, April 29 from 10:30 a.m. -- 1 p.m. at the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry, 620 Tennessee St., Greencastle. Persons may contact Judy Miller at 301-4431 with questions.
Seniors must bring proof of age, proof of address, and proof of total gross household income.
On a yearly basis, more than 160,000 food-insecure Hoosiers depend on food and other critical grocery products provided by Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana to hunger relief agencies throughout 21 counties in central and southeastern Indiana.
Gleaners was founded in 1980 and is a member of Feeding America the nation's food bank network. Since then, the food bank has distributed more than 320 million pounds of food and critical grocery products to more than 350 hunger relief agencies serving needy Hoosiers.
In Gleaners' 21-county service area, more than 287,000 people live in poverty -- 103,000 of which are children.
To learn more, log onto www.gleaners.org.