Above / For five years, Loaves & Fishes has worked in collaboration with The Compass Church Food Pantry in Bolingbrook to bring healthy food to the community. (Photo courtesy Loaves & Fishes)
Loaves & Fishes Community Services and The Compass Church in Bolingbrook have been working together to bring healthy food to the community for the past five years.
In 2018, Loaves & Fishes set out to address the significant unmet need in Bolingbrook, where many nearby residents lacked reliable transportation to access food. Loaves & Fishes and The Compass Church developed a program for food distributions. On the first day of food distribution, the mobile pantry served 105 people. Over the course of the past five years, Loaves & Fishes and The Compass Church has served 73,000 residents of Will County at the Bolingbrook location.
“We are dedicated to providing healthy food and impactful programming by bringing it directly to communities with a significant unmet need,” said Mike Havala, President & CEO of Loaves & Fishes Community Services. “We are grateful to the staff and volunteer team of the Compass Church for making this a reality.”
How can you help? Volunteer at the Compass Church Bolingbrook food pantry by visiting loaves-fishes.org/volunteer.
Note also that Loaves & Fishes is looking for volunteers who are bilingual.
Loaves and Fishes Community Services since 1984
Loaves & Fishes Community Services is a registered 501(3) organization serving more than 8,000 people a week by providing healthy food and impactful programs for self-sufficiency. It is one of the largest food pantries in the state of Illinois. Clients receive a healthy variety of food, including fresh fruits and vegetables, milk and eggs.
The Loaves & Fishes CARES programs help clients become self-sufficient through opportunities such as emergency assistance for rent or utilities, assistance with public benefits, car donations, tax preparation, job readiness, budget, and credit classes, and Moving Up, a 20-session intensive to help clients overcome barriers preventing them from becoming self-sufficient.
Loaves & Fishes serves DuPage, Will, Kane, and Kendall counties. Loaves & Fishes Grocery Market and administrative offices are located in Naperville, and their Food Distribution Hub is located in Aurora. For more information, visit loaves-fishes.org.
