Clients Now Have a Choice at the Euclid Hunger Center

Euclid Hunger Center volunteers stand ready to assist clients in choosing items from different food categories. Clients can receive a bag of food from the Center once a month.

The month of October proudly marked the Euclid Hunger Center’s first month as a Choice Pantry. The Euclid Hunger Center Board and its volunteers have worked hard in recent months to relocate the Center to a new room in Shore Cultural Centre and create a new client experience that puts control back into the hands of the people we serve. Clients and volunteers are excited and positive about the switch as it has allowed for a more personable and individualized experience for everyone.

Clients are now able to choose which products they prefer as opposed to being handed a prepackaged bag of food items. The move to a Choice Pantry allows the Center to be more efficient and effective in the purchasing of products. When clients have a choice in their products, less food is wasted at home since clients are taking items they know their families will be able to use.

The transition to a choice pantry was not an easy one and we would like to thank Shore Cultural Centre for offering us continued residence, Cleveland Paint Company for their generous donation of paint for our new room, our volunteers who have worked tirelessly to enable this change, The Cleveland Foodbank and the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland for all of their guidance and support, and, most importantly, the community as a whole for their generosity, compassion, and eagerness to help their neighbors.

Euclid Hunger Center is located in Room 17 in Shore Cultural Centre. To learn more about the Center, go to www.euclidhungercenter.com. To learn about volunteer opportunities, call Grace at the Center at (216) 731-3329. Donations of food and cash are always needed. Send your check, payable to the Euclid Hunger Center, to P.O. Box 23446, Euclid, OH 44123.

Grace Wright is the Euclid Hunger Center Manager.

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Volume 3, Issue 10, Posted 10:45 AM, 11.13.2012