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Food Pantry Case Study

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The social problem the Charleston Area Churches Food Pantry, a non-profit organization, deals with the social problem hunger. According to our textbook, Social Problems, a social problem is a condition that undermines the well-being of some or all members of a society and is usually a matter of public controversy. With that being said, world hunger fits the category of a social problem for many different reasons. Being hungry can cause humans to get very sick and have starvation related illnesses. Not only may someone suffer from these illnesses, they could potentially be killed from them. Those who work with the Charleston Area Churches Food Pantry favor the solution of making those in need of food aware of food pantries so starvation related illnesses are less likely to occur. When our social group spoke with the manager of the pantry, he gave us a sheet that has eleven different food pantries listed with their locations that he often gives out to customers because they are unaware of all the help them actually can receive. Although hunger may not be an immediate issue in your life or the peoples lives around you, it does exist in the world and has very real ramifications for each of us. If we were able to cure chronic hunger it …show more content…

The pantry is ran completely ran by volunteers and receive donations from twenty-two churches either on a weekly or monthly basis. When someone is in need of food they come to the pantry and are given three days worth of emergency food. Boxes are pre-made with numbers up to six on them which represents the number of people that specific box feeds. For example, if a mother of seven comes to the pantry and needs emergency food for her children and herself, she would receive a box with a number six and a box with a number two, feeding eight people

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