Program areas at CORA
Cora's choice food pantry supports individuals and families facing food insecurity in Chatham county. Set up like a grocery store, the pantry allows clients to choose foods that suit their needs, providing enough for 21 meals per family member at each visit. This client choice model promotes dignity, nutritional variety, and community engagement. In 2023/2024, the pantry provided over 950,000 meals to over 3,00 families across the county.
Cora's mobile market brings nutritious food directly to Chatham county residents facing food insecurity, reaching those in food deserts or with limited access to healthy food. Using a drive-through model, it provides families with pre-packed groceries that include fresh produce, meats, dairy, bakery items, and staples. Each visit offers enough food for 21 meals per person. In 2023/2024, the mobile market provided 171,000 meals.
The summer nutritional assistance for Chatham kids (snack) program ensures that children who rely on free or reduced-price school meals can access nutritious food during the summer months. It supplies families with enough healthy food to cover each child's breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, reducing the burden of increased food costs when school is out. In the summer of 2023, we served 1,312 children with over 192,000 meals.
Corapacks provides food to children who depend on free or reduced-cost meals at school but need access to nutrition during weekends and breaks. From september through may, each enrolled student receives a monthly food box delivered to their home. Each child receives three meals, two snacks, and milk for the days they are not in school. During the 2023/2024 school year, cora provided food to 175 children.delivery:cora offers delivery to local seniors who lack transportation. During fy24, cora provided delivery of groceries and csfp (commodity supplemental food program) boxes to 142 people on a monthly basis.other: food insecurity can be defined as limited or uncertain access to nutritious food because of a lack of resources. Many families do not have the financial resources they need to meet the competing demands we all face including payments for food, housing, medical care and other household necessities which increases their risk for food insecurity. Families may experience food insecurity for a day, a week, a few months or more as their resources come and go.to address this serious issue, the cora food pantry provided the equivalent of approximately 1,700,000 meals to over 12,995 individuals across Chatham county during the past fiscal year.