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Those interested in helping with the food drive can contact OneGenAway representative Adrienne Pelletier in adrienne@onegenaway. com.
PANAMA CITY — A nonprofit is carrying out its nearly four-year project to power Panama City’s network ahead of the worst part of hurricane season.
OneGenAway’s pantry returns to the parking lot of St. GenAway Catholic ChurchDominic, 3308 E. 15th St. , on Saturday.
The cellular pantry aims to provide a load of new products, pantry staples, dairy products and other essential items for those who want them. It is open to all, no registration or document is required, but the principle is the first to arrive, the first to be attended. , so it’s getting there early.
The trip is scheduled from 7:30 am to 9 am or until the meal is over. Volunteers must arrive at 6:30 am.
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OneGenAway founder and CEO Chris Whitney said one in eight Floridians is food insecure, one in six children.
He added that it is important to supply residents with basic food, as hurricane season is already active.
“With hurricane season . . . the need is beginning to exacerbate due to forced cuts and lack of access to food and transportation,” Whitney said. “All of those things are amplified by a typhoon like that. “
Arriving at the domain just after Hurricane Michael swept through Bay County in 2018, he said he noticed how scarce the new products were, as well as the color. He said offering new, healthy products can make all the difference.
“Just the color of the products, I know it sounds strange, but you know what it is after a storm. It’s just brown, nasty and dirty,” Whitney said. These are the bright colors yellow, red and orange, and Array. . they can be fed immediately. They are smart for health, their nutritional price is high. So, those are the things we think about. “
OneGenAway is a Tennessee-based nonprofit pantry operating in Florida from Michael. Whitney said OneGenAway with Hurricane Harvey flooding parts of Texas and Louisiana with record rainfall in 2017 and once it hit Michael from category five, its leaders sought to find tactics to help the Panhandle.
After an Alys Beach board member pointed him in the right direction, he temporarily contacted St. Beach’s church leaders. Dominic, where they started a partnership to nurture the community.
“I contacted (Lynn Haven United Methodist) and they told me they were already doing food stuff and referred us to St. Dominic’s. So it’s a long, tortuous road, but that’s how I was given there,” Whitney said. I flew over and met with St. Dominic’s and told them what we were doing and they said, “Man, we think we’d like to do this. Now here we are. “
Whitney said her organization has conducted about 20 cellphone campaigns in Panama City since 2018.
The reaction to his motivations has been overwhelming and grateful, he said.
“It’s very humiliating and I tell people, ‘There’s nothing like being the answer to prayer,'” Whitney said. “There is no bigger feeling than that. “
Those interested in helping with the food drive can contact OneGenAway representative Adrienne Pelletier in adrienne@onegenaway. com.