Project: Distribute Food with Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry

Join Chicago Cares and Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry for an engaging opportunity to support South Side community members experiencing food insecurity! 

By participating in this engagement, volunteers are offered the opportunity to build community, learn about the challenges residents face in accessing food and other essential items, and directly respond to immediate needs of community members through food distribution.

Food Distribution with Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry is intentionally designed to help volunteers deepen their engagement and find their cause. We believe that to move from individual to collective service, we must better understand the structural and systemic causes of issues and commit to further action. This project embodies this core value by engaging volunteers to learn about and explore ways to tackle hunger and wellness issues while participating in direct service opportunities that bring affordable groceries to Chicagoans.

The Hyde Park Kenwood food pantry provides nonperishable groceries and limited refrigerated and frozen foods to 500 to 800 food-insecure neighbors, a third of whom are children. The pantry is part of the Hyde Park Kenwood Food Programs, an initiative by the Hyde Park Union church to address hunger in the surrounding neighborhoods. Community members can visit twice a month to receive their groceries, and all first-time visitors will receive groceries regardless of residency. 

Volunteers will need to also sign up here: https://www.chicagocares.org/s/volunteer-job/a0sPZ0000008QQLYA2/project-distribute-food-with-hyde-park-kenwood-food-pantry 

You must register and sign in with Chicago Cares, then click the May 17th date. Only 8 spots are available so you must sign up early if you want to paprticipate. The 8 spots are not reserved for UIU.