The Woodland Hills nonprofit may need to enter emergency fundraising mode after not receiving enough donations.
The nonprofit that has been serving the community since the 1970s says it may have to cut some of its services.Officials from the nonprofit say while food insecurity is surging in the community, donations to the group have been dwindling.
"Rents have gone up. Food has gone up. Medication costs and health care have gone up, and they're living on fixed incomes," said Debbie Decker, the executive director of the West Valley Food Pantry."People are trying to stay housed and not become homeless, but they're also trying to make ends meet with what they have."
With its funding running low, the food pantry is now looking at the possibilities of reducing some of its services."We are upside down financially for operations," said Decker."The food insecurity is just horrific, and here we are serving the entire San Fernando Valley.”Decker said the pantry may need to enter emergency fundraising mode after not receiving enough donations.
The nonprofit says it's been providing groceries for thousands of families living under the federal poverty line since 1975. Most of their beneficiaries live in the San Fernando Valley.by LA County, nearly 516,000 households in Los Angeles struggle to put food on their table, and nearly 95,000 of those are in the San Fernando Valley — more than any other region in the county.
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