The Community Basket Mobile Food Pantry will celebrate its first year anniversary in September.
Due to changes in social services in our area because of budget cuts, it was felt that there was a need for a way to reach out to those who struggle with food insecurity in our communities. Working with Siouxland Food Bank, the mobile pantry came into being through the direction of the Ida County Ministerial and the Odebolt-Arthur-Kiron Ministerial Associations.
Communities that make up the community basket are Arthur, Battle Creek, Galva, Holstein, Ida Grove, Kiron and Odebolt. Each community has a community representative who takes delivery orders for those who absolutely can’t make it to the distribution site.
The representatives are also responsible for posting the fliers in their communities. The mobile pantry rotates each month to a new community on the third Thursday of each month, with the doors opening at 4:30 p. m.
In addition to the mobile pantry, there is a site pantry located in the lower level of the Medical Arts Building in Ida Grove. The site pantry is stocked with donations from area congregations and communities and items not distributed at the mobile site.
A household may use the mobile pantry and then may use the site pantry once a month. For reporting purposes and recordkeeping, names are taken at the site pantry.
At the mobile site, we only ask the number in the household (adults and children), if they are above or below the guidelines set by the government, if they used the site pantry the last month and what community they are from.
Click here for more information
(download and print the below pictured .pdf for distribution schedule,
income guidelines & phone numbers to call)
(download and print the below pictured .pdf for distribution schedule,
income guidelines & phone numbers to call)
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