March to a Million Meals

Wednesday is the last day to participate in the WINK Feeds Families March to a Million Meals, which, thanks to you, has already surpassed its goal.

The Harry Chapin Food Bank makes your donated dollar go further with the help of volunteers. Marylou Phillips has handed out food in Punta Gorda for 10 years. “I come in every Thursday. And that’s what I enjoy. I enjoy seeing the people enjoy helping,” Phillips said. In fact, this entire group of volunteers from […]

Beach Baptist Church on Fort Myers Beach is not just a place where people go for fellowship and worship, it’s a place to find food and any other resources needed to recover from Hurricane Ian.

WINK News continues to march past a million meals in Southwest Florida because roughly 150,000 local families struggle with food insecurity. At a Harry Chapin Food Bank distribution site in Lehigh Acres, it was the moments of kindness between volunteers and recipients that made the difference.

For more than 40 years, FISH of SANCAP served the Sanibel/Captiva community as any other charitable group would. But when Hurricane Ian turned life upside down at FISH headquarters and on those islands, the group adjusted to meet the community’s needs.

In a survey from No Kid Hungry Florida, 26% of moms and dads said they are worried that everyone in their households won’t have enough to eat. Even in Southwest Florida’s rural communities like Immokalee, communities that grow and harvest a lot of the produce we eat, people say they can’t get that nutritious food […]

Children make up a third of all the people served by the Harry Chapin Food Bank, and one way the food bank reaches them is through school pantries. 150 people visit the pantry at Harns Marsh Middle School each week, and the number keeps growing.

For the 12th year, the Cross Creek Ladies 9-hole Golf League is driving home the importance of feeding people in our community.

You’re cooking dinner and realize you’re missing an ingredient. Can you run to the store and get what you need? Is there even one nearby?

Many remember being a broke college student surviving on ramen noodles and fast food.