WEST SIDE FOOD PANTRY NEEDS DONATIONS
The West Side Campaign Against Hunger needs help filling its shelves. The supermarket-style pantry has faced a 47-percent increase in people coming for food in the last three years. Donate through the website at wscah.org.
Fighting Hunger on the West Side
Local food bank sees 50-percent increase in cases since 2008
Hunger is on the rise on the Upper West Side.
Volunteers at the West Side Campaign Against Hunger prepared for one of its busiest periods of the year on a recent Tuesday, as they managed their final delivery of food just before Thanksgiving week. Read more
Serving Up Food and Pride to the Hungry
Food center’s volunteers are also clients
Doreen Wohl was surprised to discover another side to the United States when she came here from England in 1953 with the American Friends Service Committee to work with migrant farm workers in Pennsylvania.
“I grew up during the war and the idea of America was that it was the land of milk and honey,” said Wohl, 77. “It came as a real shock but also a very important introduction to the United States to realize that you could exist without realizing there was such poverty.” Read more
Nutrition for the Body and Soul
About a year ago, Manny Ramos began getting cooking compliments from his wife. Ramos always enjoyed cooking, but his dishes were usually yellow rice and beans with fried chicken.
“One day, I cooked pasta with cheese. My wife asked me how I did it,” Ramos said. “She likes the way I cook now.”
Ramos’ new culinary repertoire is the result of a 12-week course he took at the West Side Campaign Against Hunger, a food pantry housed in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, on West 86th Street and Broadway. He started volunteering there at the suggestion of a friend from church. Read more
