To Shawn Iles, assistant program director at religious nonprofit Interfaith Action of Evanston, the best part of his job is getting to know regulars at Produce Mobile — a free produce market that aims to serve low-income populations in Evanston. The Produce Mobile delivers 15 to 25-plus pounds of fresh produce per person on the.
“There’s a stigma around homeless people and what people don’t know is that most of the homeless are older men that lost their jobs and a lot of them are women in their 60s that are divorced,” President-elect of the Rotary Club of Wilmette Mariana Alfar said. “There’s a lot of stigma around homeless people.”
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Food distribution helps the hungry during the pandemic
If you ever had any doubt about the reality of hunger in an affluent community such as Evanston, all you had to do was show up at the Levy Senior
A line of cars with people seeking donations from the food bank.
A line of well over 100 cars stretched out of a back parking lot at the Levy Center this morning, down Mulford Street, and around the corner onto Dodge Avenue, all for a free box of fresh produce.
“Some of them showed up at 7 a.m. to be the first in line,” said Shawn Iles, of Interfaith Action of Evanston. The group co-sponsored the event with the City of Evanston. The Greater Chicago Food Depository provided the food.