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Refugee nonprofit expanding services to help meet expected rise in demand for aid

Refugee nonprofit expanding services to help meet expected rise in demand for aid and last updated 2021-03-11 13:53:43-05 Starting a new life in a new country can be difficult and Ala Shamam knows the struggles. “It’s hard to come to a country where you don’t speak their language, you don’t know what they are thinking,” she said. Shamam immigrated from North Sudan to the United States a few years ago. She is now an expanded functions dental assistant and offering her services at Project Worthmore, a nonprofit which has served Colorado’s refugee population for the past 10 years.

These Colorado Programs Are Combating Hunger with Free Meals

These Colorado Programs Are Combating Hunger with Nutritious Free Meals To help the nearly 40 percent of Coloradans who are food insecure, Kitchen One for One and Project Worthmore aim to serve healthy food and spur community connection. Jenny McCoy •   March 11, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic may be easing, but the hunger crisis it exacerbated in Colorado is far from over. Nearly two in five Centennial Staters (38 percent) don’t have reliable access to nutritious food, according to a December survey by Hunger Free Colorado. That’s up from 29 percent in September 2020 and 10.2 percent in 2019 a sign of the profound and worsening economic challenges many are facing a full year into the pandemic. 

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