In 2017, the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana distributed over 5 million pounds of food to people in need. This would not be possible without the partnership of more than 60 nonprofit organizations that operate food pantries, soup kitchens and meal programs all over the 12 Parish region we serve. We recently visited one of […]

Join us for Do Good Date Night, a chance to combine date night with volunteering, have fun and meet some stellar new people, PLUS make a difference in our community. We’ll spend about an hour working in the Food Bank’s warehouse completing a fun service project. Afterward, we’ll enjoy some delicious food from roeLA Roaster and sip […]

Tell us a little bit about yourselves and your family: Neither of us are originally from this area. We moved here to take jobs after college at the paper mill in Bastrop in the early 1980’s. We both were employed as engineers at the mill. My husband is from Mississippi and a graduate of Mississippi […]