Hunger Facts
An estimated 49 million Americans are food insecure. Of those 49 million, almost 17 million are children and 5 million are seniors. Last year, over 37 million people used a Food Bank for emergency food assistance.
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The San Antonio Food Community Kitchen has three locations that are responsible for preparing and serving hot meals daily for homeless families as wells as for battered women and children. The Community Kitchen also a 16 week Culinary Arts Program (with 4 mandatory training sessions a week) that provides job-skills training at the following locations:
The Community Kitchen program is an innovative, exciting, and cost efficient way that we can use food to feed the hungry, train the unemployed, generate public support, create greater economies of scale, and challenge inaccurate stereotypes of the men, women, and children we serve. Nationwide, there are currently 36 Community Kitchen programs in operation, which graduate more than a thousand participants each year and help them find employment in the food service industry. Contact InfoSan Antonio Food Bank Community Kitchen Executive Chef
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The San Antonio Food Bank Community Kitchen, is designed to address hunger by providing economically disadvantaged adults with the job skills they need to achieve self-sufficiency. This program is based on the belief that solving the immediate problem of hunger is only half the battle; the most common reasons that adults are forced to rely on food pantries to meet their nutritional needs are a lack of job training and the inability to find sustainable employment that pays a living wage. Community Kitchens do more than put a “band-aid” on hunger by providing a viable solution through training participants in food service skills.
The first Community Kitchen began more than a decade ago in Washington D.C., when a food-rescue organization saw the opportunity to train low-income men and women in food production skills while transforming donated prepared and perishable food into nutritious meals for other hungry individuals and families in their communities. The program quickly grew to include not only basic culinary instruction, but food safety and job readiness skills as well.