The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank continues its fight against hunger in the keystone state
By Marquis Lupton
Airdate: November, 2nd 2023
More than 34 million people in the U.S. face hunger, including one in five children. And in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, unemployment and food insecurity soared in 2020. 49 million people turned to food banks and community programs for help putting food on the table. The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is a nonprofit organization committed to ending hunger in 27 counties across central Pennsylvania. And on The Spark today we welcomed CEO Joe Arthur and CDO Jennifer Powell. Joe Arthur states that, “We are the regional food bank that serves 27 counties, really from border to border from Maryland on up to New York. So the whole Susquehanna Valley of central Pennsylvania and we work with over 1100 partner organizations to provide nutritious food to people that are facing hunger”.
