Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle Hunger Project - Amarillo, Texas
The Catholic Charities Inter-Faith Hunger Project is a program that provides nutritious and healthy food to individuals and families who are living on a low or fixed income. To qualify, one person in the household must be on disability or age 50 or older. The Catholic Diocese of Amarillo established the agency in the mid-1930s Dust Bowl era to provide food and clothing to the needy citizens of Amarillo, Texas.
William
I come here once a month. I lost my job after ten years. I was working with a contractor and I was his only employee. Work was really slow, especially in 2020. That’s when I found this place.
They have helped me out generously. I try not to take advantage of it because I’m probably in a lot better shape than half the people who come in here.
If work is good, I won’t make it here. I only worked two days last week. I worked yesterday and we were done by noon. It was a small job and there’s no work the rest of the week. When that happens, the money I do have gets used up and this helps me out.
I have a granddaughter I get to have on weekends and this helps out with her. I am blessed to be able to get the help I’ve been having.
Joseph - Volunteer
I was in the military for twenty years. I retired 17 years ago...I volunteer once a week and it’s been a year since I started volunteering here.
It was during Lent and we always talk about giving up something for Lent. In our more recent years, our parish and our priest have been saying what can you do for some giving, what can you do versus what can you give up, that was part of it I think.
The other thing is helping people who are less fortunate. Kind of like what we did in the military, we helped a lot of people. I was in airlift, so we did a lot of humanitarian airlifts along with combat airlifts, but we did a lot of humanitarian. We went to Africa taking water purification equipment. I was a flight
engineer. I loved it, it was great, it was one of the best enlisted jobs in the Air Force.