The Tarrant Area Food Bank is hosting a mobile pantry Friday outside Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. The food bank has been holding mobile markets since the pandemic started; today, the pantry will include meal kits for families to celebrate Mothers Day.
"This is an opportunity for Tarrant Area Food Bank to take care of our very important moms on Mothers Day, and families don't have to worry about what they're going to do about their Sunday gathering," says Chief Executive Julie Butner.
Tarrant Area Food Bank is working with Hello Fresh to provide meal kits. Butner says, while people have gone back to work after the pandemic, many cannot adjust to higher grocery costs.
"The majority of these folks are working, but when something like inflation hits or they get an unexpected flat tire or unexpected medical bill, all of a sudden, they can't make it to the next paycheck," she says. "We think it's just really important to make sure people have food on the table. It's a basic necessity. There's no reason people should go to bed hungry."
The mobile pantry runs from 9 a.m. to noon in the Yellow Lot at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. People can enter from Montgomery Street.
Butner says the mobile pantry expects to serve 1,500 families Friday. She says the Tarrant Area Food Bank's greatest need is volunteers to help with continued demand.
"If you want to get involved around the cause of feeding people and making sure nobody goes to bed hungry, we have a lot of volunteer opportunities," she says. "We certainly could use the help."
People can sign up to volunteer here or make a donation online.
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