A survey of Salvation Army food programs across the country shows nearly all saw increased demand over the past year while donations to one of the top social service charities were flat or declined. In the survey of 30 food programs released Tuesday, caseworkers in Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere say they can’t keep up with [...]
A food relief program was expected to resume soon in the northwestern tribal region of Bajaur, where a suicide bomber killed 46 people outside a World Food Program center on Saturday, according to officials. “We have ceased operations in Bajaur for practical reasons,” Mageed Yahia, the deputy country director for the World Food Program in [...]
Deer hunters in northeast Wisconsin are a little more generous this fall in donating their venison meat to the needy. The non-profit group “Hunt for the Hungry” said 545 deer have been donated in 11 counties in the Green Bay region. That’s up from 540 deer for all of last year. Lee Dudek says the [...]
