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Here is the list of nonprofits and the grants they received:
A Place of Restoration: $7,500 for cooking equipment and food supplies to prepare hot meals for the needy.
Bayou Civic Club: $7,500 to replace the air-conditioning system in the Larose Civic Center gym.
Bunkhouse Shelter: $10,000 to provide emergency shelter and meals for homeless people in Terrebonne and Lafourche.
CASA of Lafourche: $4,000 to recruit and train CASA volunteers for the program, which help children from broken homes navigate the court system.
CASA of Terrebonne: $6,000 to recruitment and train volunteers and support a tutoring program.
Catholic Community Center: $6,000 for food bank shelving and storage and distributing food and supplies to needy residents.
Bayou Community Foundation Grants $226,000 to 30 Local Nonprofits - The Times of Houma/Thibodaux houmatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from houmatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The coronavirus pandemic s toll on jobs and income has made people s lives more difficult, increasing demand on local food banks.
As a result, agencies whose purpose is helping to fulfill the most basic human function are seeing an explosion in the number of people who struggle to feed themselves and their families.
Lawrence DeHart, president of the Terrebonne Churches United Good Samaritan Food Bank in Houma, said the number of people his agency serves has doubled. The year before last, we did 10,500 people, DeHart said. In the last 12 months, we did 21,800.
Catholic Charities Executive Director Nicole Bourgeois said the volume of people fed by the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux has also doubled.