The initiative focuses on building connections with its community members and showing them that someone cares. The volunteers involved have reported that people have come up to them to express gratitude not just for the food, but for the act of kindness itself. The effort has also attracted attention from local officials… who have commended the volunteers on their work and offered support.
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In The News:
Community care — Hope Initiative distributes free food boxes in Galesburg
Outside a warehouse on Seminary and Third streets in Galesburg, community members line up in cars, waiting for their share of 275 free boxes of food.
A team of 93 volunteers ix distributing free boxes of food to community members in need every third Thursday of the month from 5 to 7 p.m.
The warehouse is next to the former Rescue Mission. The building is owned by Graham Health System, which intends to use part of it for a new primary care clinic on the city’s south side.
Volunteers gathered to celebrate a ribbon-cutting for the new Hope Initiative distribution center last week.
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