"I came to support my mother."

"Sometimes you won’t eat but you’ll feed your family to make ends meet."

"You get more than a meal. You get hope."

“Using food bank doesn’t make you any less of a person."

"I would see children come to school hungry and just not able to function.”

"We didn’t think of food banks as for us."

"It’s hard to feed me and my son."

“I’ve been there. That’s why I do this.”

I used to be nurse. Now I'm at a food bank.

"Before we had food stamps, my son and I ate beans and tortillas."

"With the economy a lot of people are going hungry."

"My husband is unemployed right now, so it helps my family.”