DuPage Charity Extends Program for Low-income Families
The Humanitarian Service Project (HSP,) of DuPage County, is announcing an expansion to the services it provides to children and families living in poverty throughout DuPage and Kane counties. Recently, HSP expanded the scope of its Children's Project to provide nutritional support at critical times during the year to the children enrolled in the program. Children also receive a beautiful birthday box to celebrate their birthdays, and school supplies for those children of school age.
The increased food support is necessary for families and their children struggling with food insecurity. This is a growing need that must be addressed so the program expansion will provide 335 families with vital nutrition, a significant increase from the 100 families served in prior years.
During each of the summer months, HSP provides a large grocery package containing fresh produce, frozen meat, bread, and non-perishables to 260 local families to fill the "nutrition gap" faced by these families when school meal programs are not available in the summertime. Monthly, emergency grocery packages are distributed to 75+ families to ensure children have nutritious food to eat when funds begin to run low at the end of the month.
HSP is seeking community support to meet this additional need for critical services through donations of food drives and monetary support of the Children's Project.
Contact the Humanitarian Service Project: hsp@hsp.agency.
HSP's website: www.hsp.agency
About The Humanitarian Service Project:
HSP's mission is to alleviate the pain and suffering that poverty brings to seniors and children in DuPage and Kane counties, Illinois. In 2016, during the Christmas Offering Project, 1,903 children received gifts and over 500 impoverished families received groceries. With the Senior Citizen Project, HSP provides monthly food deliveries and secret pal gifts to 134 low-income seniors. Through the Children's Project, HSP provides for the nutritional, emotional, and academic needs of more than 700 low-income children. In 2016, though the three programs, HSP distributed 123 tons of groceries to people in need.