Program areas at CORA
Cora serves individuals within our community who need food through our choice food pantry and mobile markets. Last year, cora distributed 1.28 million meals to over 10,000 individuals. Cora recently expanded and renovated our food pantry and reopened in july 2023. Cora's pantry is set up like a grocery store for choice shopping, and community members choose the food that matches their preferences and needs.cora's mobile market provides nutritious food to people facing food insecurity in Chatham county. This program helps us reach those in need of food beyond the boundaries of our pantry. We currently distribute food via a drive-through model, and families receive food, including shelf-stable items, fresh produce, meats, dairy, and bakery items.
The backpack support program provides food to Chatham county, north carolina school backpack programs who, combined, provide nutritional assistance to approximately 1,000 children for weekends and holidays during the school year.
Cora's snack! (summer nutritional assistance for Chatham kids) program distributes food to more than 1,300 kids who depend upon free or reduced-cost meals at school during the school year but have little or no replacement for this nutrition when school is not in session. Snack! Provides each participating child with 21 healthy meals each week from mid-june through mid-august. In summer 2022, we served 1,327 children with more than 186,000 pounds of food.
Corapacks:the corapacks program provides food to food insecure children in nine schools in Chatham county, north carolina. Nutritional assistance is provided to approximately 160 children for weekends and holidays during the school year. This food is delivered once each month directly to children's homes.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 1,280,000 meals to over 10,220 families across Chatham county during the past fiscal year.