HOLMES, P.A. (KYW Newsradio) — Share Food Program, one of the region’s largest food banks and hunger relief organizations, has expanded its footprint in Delaware County with a new food warehouse.
Jess Bautista, chief communications officer with Share Food, said the warehouse in Holmes is the organization’s second in Philadelphia’s collar counties, and is a 9,000-square foot facility.
“It will serve as the country’s first centralized food bank,” she said. “That is going to serve as a storage unit for a lot of our commodities that go out to our 15 or 16 pantries in Delaware county. We’ve been serving these pantries for a while now, but now we have a location here where we can store the food, have community services.”
Bautista said it would also help Share Food to respond quicker to any food assistance in the county at a time when food insecurity is rising and similar organizations are facing federal cuts.
“There is a gap that we need to fill, hunger is on the rise and resources are scarcer than ever, but we are doing what we need to make sure that we have no disrupted services for the people we serve,” she said.
The Share Food Program has distributed more than 3.6 million pounds of food to residents in the Philadelphia region since 2022.