Mobile Allocates Funds to Set Up Food Pantries

Mayor Sandy Stimpson recently announced the Mobile City Council’s approval of a resolution that will allow it to utilize state funding to establish food pantries in underserved areas of the city that have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. The council plans to use these funds to purchase and retrofit at least three buildings to serve as food pantries in City Council Districts 1, 2 and 3. Each location will work with Feeding the Gulf Coast to become an affiliate pantry, and the nonprofit’s services will be available at least through the end of the pandemic. “The funding should be available by early summer, with the pantries getting up and running soon after,” Stimpson explained. “I’d like to thank the city council for [its] support, as well as the dedicated community partners like Africatown Community Development Corp., Crichton-Toulminville Community Development Corp. and First Baptist Church of Baltimore Street that are helping make these programs possible.”