HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY, HoustonFoodBank! 🍏🥳💕
In 1982, the dream of a small group of concerned citizens came to life and has since become the country’s largest food bank.
Over the past 40 years, Houston Food Bank has distributed close to two billion pounds of food throughout 18 counties in southeast Texas. “Nineteen-eighty-two and 1983 were tough years, no sooner had the food bank opened, it got shut down by the City of Houston Health Department and we got kicked out of the Second Harvest National Food Bank network. Shortly after I started, we terminated our contract with the State of Texas,” Williams said.
In the early 180s, Houston was booming. Williams said the perception of why there was a need for a food bank in Houston was a challenge.
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