Camba Opens Client Choice Food Pantry

CAMBA opened a new Client Choice Food Pantry with a ceremony honoring the primary funder, New York State Assemblymember Rhoda Jacobs. The Client Choice Food Pantry, located at its new location at 2241 Church Avenue is designed as a supermarket pantry.

The regular schedule for the pantry will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 am-1:00 pm.

According to the Food Bank for New York City, the City’s emergency food programs (EFPs) provided food to approximately 1.3 million New Yorkers in 2007. This represents an increase of 24% since 2004. Thirty-one percent of EFP beneficiaries are children under the age of 17, an increase of 20% since 2004.

CAMBA’s food pantry provides over 5,000 food packages a year to hungry adults and children. The Client Choice pantry is modeled after a regular grocery store, allowing people coming for emergency food to choose what food they need instead of receiving pre-packed bags of food. Only the fourth Client Choice Pantry in New York City, this marks the first Client Choice model at CAMBA.