One in five children are food insecure in the Triad. Second Harvest Food Bank helps kids, families and seniors from Boone to Burlington.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — What’s for dinner? Soup is on in Winston-Salem! Second Harvest Food Bank is hosting its biggest fundraiser of the year, Empty Bowls.
This drive-thru event includes a bag of homemade soup and two homemade pottery bowls created by Sawtooth Visual Arts students. About 1,200 people signed up to buy the soup and bowls. They get fed and they help others to be fed as well.
There’s been a big increase in folks who need food help. Compared to March of 2022, requests for food assistance are up 42% in our area which stretches from Boone to Burlington.
According to Second Harvest, more than 50,000 residents received help from the Second Harvest network last month alone, as first-time customers of the food bank resources. The network includes more than …