P-5018

Little Food Pantries-Lander Wy

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Project Description

Country: USA

Location: Lander Wyoming

Total Budget: $1,000

Area of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment

Activity Type: Food/Agriculture: General

Summary: Four small food pantries filled with emergency food provisions for needy people in Lander, Wyoming, U.S.A.


Poverty is not a distant problem faced by others, but a real problem in Lander Wyoming. More than one in ten people Fremont County are "food insecure," meaning that they have limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. This data is provided by the Lander Care and Share Food Bank. While the Food Bank meets many needs, the Little Food Pantries in Lander Wyoming fill another need - that of emergency assistance to help people get by "right now", in an emergency and help to the homeless.

Needs identified: Food insecurity, emergency food needed

How Funds Will Be Used: The Lander Rotary Club is proposing a Governor's Grant to purchase $1,000 worth of food for four Little Food Pantries in Lander. The four pantries are situated around town and allow people to "take what they need and contribute what they can". The pantries are particularly helpful during the cold-weather months of the year. Funds will be used to purchase food. Items in the food pantries include nutritional:

• Easy-open canned goods

• Grab and go snacks

• Vacuum packed proteins

What Rotarians will do: Lander Rotarians also donate warm socks, hats, and gloves during the cold months of the year. Rotarians will also sort food, allocate it for distribution throughout the winter and deliver it to the pantries. This is part of an on-going project of the club where club members have supplied food during warm weather months.

Timeline: Food purchase will begin as soon as funds are received and continue until funds are exhausted which is anticipated as May 2024. If it is an especially cold, snowy and icy winter, food and funds may be exhausted earlier.

How project meets needs: This food is available 24/7 and is nutritional. There are local resources to help with more substantial and on-going food needs (Lander Care and Share Food Bank and First Stop), but emergency, at-this-moment needs are not able to be met.

Further Data On Need: The Wyoming Counts Kids 2022 data demonstrates many instances of need in Freemont County and that data reflects Lander as well. That dat includes:

• The County is among the top five counties in Wyoming in WIC enrollments

• The County is #2 in Wyoming in SNAP enrollments

• Medicaid births are the highest in the state at 48.8% of births

• Twenty-five percent of the population is under 18 years of age

• Thirty-five percent of the county population is living in poverty.

• The County had the highest percentage of children without health insurance in the state in 2020.

The people that are food insecure and who need emergency assistance have many faces: Our neighbors who experience food insecurity may have recently lost a job. They may have suffered a stroke or face debilitating illness. They may be elderly with no family around. Or they may be grandparents living on retirement who suddenly had to take in their grandchildren for a while. The faces of food insecurity are many and many are our neighbors.

Project Contact Person

District: 5440

Rotary Club of: Lander

Primary Contact: Cassy Venters

Email: cdventers@me.com

Project Status

Paid
This project is "Paid". This means that the funds from the district have been issued. This project is now being ready for implementation. When this is done, a report needs to be uploaded on the project page and the "Reported" button needs to be clicked, then the status of the project will be changed to "Reported".

Project listed for the 2023-24 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Lander (5440)

19-Sep-23

$334

$666

$1,000

Total

$334

$666

$1,000

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History Log Entries

19-Sep-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Creation of project page.

30-Sep-23

by Randall Looper

Cassy

Please upload a budget of income and expenses to the documents area of the grant. Also, start the signature process with you and your club President signing.

9-Oct-23

by Randall Looper

Cassy,

You need to start the signature process with your signature and your Presidents signature before I can approve the grant.

16-Oct-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

16-Oct-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Project signed by Cassy Venters.

1-Nov-23

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user.

13-Nov-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

13-Nov-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Project signed by Cassy Venters.

13-Nov-23

by Cassy Venters

System Entry: Project reverted to "Submitted" - Mandy Fable added to the list of signatories.

19-Nov-23

by Mandy Fabel

System Entry: Project signed by Mandy Fabel.

21-Nov-23

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

21-Nov-23

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

18-Dec-23

by Mandy Fabel

Check received

8-Jun-24

by Randall Looper

Cassy,

Please provide a quarterly history log update on this project.

Thanks, Randy

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