WHAT: 3rd Annual Spread the Love Peanut Butter Drive WHEN: February 1st Through March 29th, 2019 WHERE: Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana The Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana is kicking off their 3rd annual area-wide peanut butter drive to benefit children, families and seniors who face hunger in Northeast Louisiana. Hunger is a big issue […]

It truly is tragic that in our community, there are 71,560 people in food-insecure households. That means their ability to acquire nutritious food is limited or uncertain. It is tragic that children go to bed hungry, that seniors do not know where their next meal is coming from, that parents need to go without eating […]

The Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana received a special visit last week from the new Chief Executive Officer of Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization. Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, a Louisiana native, was recently appointed to head the non-profit network of 200 Food Banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs. Before relocating to […]