Lacy de la Garza | Email: ldelagarza@ccdallas.org | Phone: 469-801-8134

August 2023

Back to school means food security for some children, but many children and adults alike still do not know where their next meal will come from. At Catholic Charities Dallas, we work hard to alleviate hunger and food insecurity in our community.

Our Hunger Services team works in multiple ways, including operating 2 fixed food pantries which together distribute approximately 1.2 million meals a year. Our newest food pantry opens soon at St. Jude Park Central, where we plan to serve close to 1,000 families a year at that location alone.

In addition to the fixed pantries, we are proud to operate five mobile community pantries that travel to 99 mobile pantry sites each month, bringing fresh food to all nine counties of the Diocese of Dallas. These five trucks offer 132 food drops per month.

We are looking to expand these mobile pantries into even more zip codes. These are a great way for your parish to get involved with hunger services, and we’re just looking for partnerships once or twice a month!

Opening a mobile pantry location is an easy and effective way to fight hunger in areas of high food insecurity. We will provide the truck, the food at no cost, training for volunteers, and help with logistics. All you will need is a parking space for our 33-foot truck and volunteers once or twice a month.

Please consider signing up to help fight hunger in your community! For more information, contact Rigo Aguilar by emailing raguilar@ccdallas.org.

Thank you to all of the parishes that already host our mobile food pantries!

If a mobile food pantry is not a good option for your parish, your parish is still able to serve the hungry by volunteering at our fixed pantry sites, joining another mobile food volunteer team, or organizing a food drive.

Among all of our hunger programs, we are proud to say that CCD distributes more than 8 million pounds of food every year! We are truly always looking for groups to host food drives to help us feed the hungry. This can be as simple as us delivering and then picking up a metal food cart for your parish or school to fill with canned and non-perishable goods.

For more information about helping with anything you’ve heard today, contact us at volunteer@ccdallas.org.

Thank you for all you do. Until next time!

Zip codes in high need of Hunger Services: 75261, 75454, 76041, 76064, 76651, 76670, 75019, 75409