SAN DIEGO — Support The Enlisted Project partners with Feeding San Diego to help military families get access to food through distribution events. It’s a collaboration between two organizations to help bridge the gap of food insecurity.
“With the increase of gas and groceries, just any relief has been extremely helpful,” said Riley Johnson.
Johnson drove down from Camp Pendleton to attend a distribution event at STEP headquarters. Her husband serves in the U.S. Navy and Johnson works full time. She said since moving to San Diego times have been a little rough.
“You don't always want your kid to have to worry about healthy food options and so it's hard to talk about,” Johnson said.
With the help of Feeding San Diego, Johnson and many other families who pick up groceries are able to provide nutritious food to their loved ones.
“A lot of the times, because we live on base we don't always qualify for assistance by the government and so being able to get these nutrients for your kids and give them still healthy foods is something that if we were to go out and get them for ourselves is something that we wouldn't always give them,” Johnson said.
Feeding San Diego is dedicated to helping military families in need of food and that's why they created their Feeding Heroes Program.
“They make sacrifices, we should not have them sacrifice good nutritious food to make their ends meet,” explained Bob Kamensky the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Feeding San Diego.
Feeding San Diego partners with several military organizations in San Diego to provide food. Service members also have the opportunity to receive groceries at Camp Pendleton every month.
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