The volunteers at the Sheldon Heights Food Pantry in Chicago's Roseland community have been helping fight hunger for more than 40 years.
The volunteers at the Sheldon Heights Food Pantry in Chicago's Roseland community have been helping fight hunger for more than 40 years.A bustling pantry that got its start in the basement of the Sheldon Heights Church of Christ in the Roseland neighborhood has been helping those in need for 44 years.
The Sheldon Heights Food Pantry sits next door to its namesake church near 113rd and Halsted on the Far South Side. It's a client choice pantry, which means community members get to pick and choose the food they need. Led by an all-volunteer staff, the pantry is sourced almost completely by the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Customers are also guided by a nutrition ranking system called SWAP, or Supporting Wellness at Pantries."If you notice, our vegetables are first because we want people to get the fresh fruit and vegetables," said Clark. "Also the rest of the food is structured in a way, and labeled so that individuals know which foods are the best and healthiest for them.
"We have our senior citizens that might be on fixed income, we have young families with lots of children in the home, and then we even now have seen an uptick with young people overall, all of them feeling the pinch of inflation," said Clark.
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