Meet Our Members: Walla Walla

Washington Food Coalition members in Walla Walla serve their local community and beyond! 

Helpline serves as a central hub for families to come to and receive a food card, which serves as their 'pass' to the 3 local food banks in town. These 3 food banks are St. Vincent De Paul, Salvation Army, and Pantry Shelf. Helpline also keeps emergency food on hand so that they can give families enough to get through if a food bank isn't open at that time. All 3 food banks receive food from Blue Mountain Action Council, a local food distributor for hunger relief. Click here to read more on how they all work together. 

Empty fridges hope to be filled soon at Helpline

An impromptu beef donation allowed Helpline to recently hand out extra food.

Handmade blankets have been stocked for winter months.

Samantha Riggle, Executive Assistant, works with a faithful volunteer.

Hygiene items are kept on hand to help families in need.

Numbers of people helped continue to rise each year at St. Vincent de Paul. 

Director Skip from St. Vincent de Paul is with faithful volunteer Marie in front of 'Marie's Corner', where she prepares Christmas items for resale in the retail store they run.

Cheerful volunteers at St. Vincent de Paul have fun while serving their neighbors!

Clothes and household items are sorted and displayed so that food bank clients at St. Vincent de Paul can pick them up when needed.

This massive stock of boxes represents clothing and household donations to St. Vincent de Paul from the last 30 days. These will be sorted and sold in their retail store to support the food bank and charity office work.

The St. Vincent de Paul retail store.

Bins from a recent food drive at Blue Mountain Action Council's food distribution warehouse await sorting.

Great idea! Blue Mountain Action Council has these shopping carts customized so that they easily accommodate the loading and unloading of CSFP boxes (these boxes are for low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age).

Blue Mountain Action Council staff proudly showing off their good-looking potatoes that were recently donated. 

Delicious Dave's Killer Bread that was donated to Blue Mountain Action Council.