Sometimes people forget that hunger is a sad reality for many people in the Conejo Valley year round - that is 365 days a year not just during the holidays. While the food donations are greatly appreciated during the holidays and will fill the Pantry for several months, the same people are in need of food on a consistent basis. In fact, without a constant influx of food donations, the food collected during the holiday season will only last a few months at the most. Manna serves, on average, roughly...
Sometimes when helping others with food assistance, it is easy to forget about the things we don't have in our office. It is more important to us to help the community and ensure that nobody goes hungry in the Conejo Valley. Recently, our office was closed so that our staff could work remotely with members of the community. We lacked the basic office supplies that could help our operations function more smoothly and productively. Imagine our surprise when Lockheed Martin donated a truckload of furniture—5...
The Boy Scout Promise, “a boy scout promises to help other people at all times.” The dedicated Boy Scouts of the Conejo Valley are doing just that by getting ready for their annual National food drive, the biggest food drive of the year to benefit Manna. The annual Boy Scouts National food drive is a nation-wide event that encourages boy scouts to collect food for local hunger relief organizations. Boy Scout Packs from around the Conejo Valley have partnered with Manna on this drive for more than...
This last year, Manna was the fortunate recipient of an outpouring of generosity and goodwill during the month of December. Our motto is " Neighbors feeding neighbors" and we distributed an average of 5,000 pounds of food a week to 1,310 of our neighbors in the Conejo Valley in during the last month of 2013. As you can imagine, December is a very active time for food donations. And this year was no exception, with an estimated 100 food drives specifically for the benefit of Manna Conejo Food Bank...
Here’s a sobering bit of information that most of us either aren’t aware of or we turn a blind eye towards this bit of information; in our country 1 in every 6 people face problems each and every day when it comes to hunger. But in the Conejo Valley in Southern California, there are people who care about these people who find themselves in unfortunate circumstances through no fault of their own. Manna is a food bank in the Conejo Valley and their only mission is helping other people, and making...