Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina – one of only six Food Banks in the Metrolina area  serving 19 counties in North and South Carolina.  In FY2005-2006, Second Harvest Food Bank distributed over 25 million pounds of food and essential grocery items to over 600 agencies.  Agencies include emergency pantries, soup kitchens, senior programs, shelters and low-income daycares.

• Pantries, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens serving
  1,098,200 annually.
  
  
• 70% of households served have incomes below the federal
  poverty level.
  
  
• 49% report having to choose between paying for food or
  paying for utilities or heating fuel.
  
  
• 41% report having to choose between paying for food or
  paying for rent or mortgage.
  
  
• 38% report choosing between paying for food or paying
  for medicine or medical care.
  
  
• 36% of households report having at least one household
  member in poor health.
  
  
• 29% of the members of households served are children -
  over 300,000 children assisted annually.
  
  
• 12% of the people served are elderly.
  
  
• 10% of the people served are homeless.

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