Imagine you’re hungry, unable to afford food. This is the reality of many in Wisconsin. To help supply these people with the nutrition they need, food pantries are a must. Erin Waldhart is the executive director of the WAFER Food Pantry in La Crosse. She explains how they support their community and the benefit of their mobile food pantry.

The WAFER Mobile Food Pantry is a food pantry on wheels that is stocked with dry goods, basic staples, and freezers to transport perishable items. This mobile unit is taken to 20 different sites throughout La Crosse County each month. 

“Each site is preloaded before so we are able to serve between twenty and forty families based on family size at each stop,” says Waldhart. "We have a new mobile pantry manager and he has just exploded the program. He's up to 100 to 150 or more families than we saw at our highest and now we're serving between 300 and 350 families on the mobile unit.”

Imagine you’re hungry, unable to afford food. This is the reality of many in Wisconsin. To help supply these people with the nutrition they need, food pantries are a must. Erin Waldhart is the executive director of the WAFER Food Pantry in La Crosse. She explains how they support their community and the benefit of their mobile food pantry.
The WAFER Mobile Food Pantry is a food pantry on wheels that is stocked with dry goods, basic staples, and freezers to transport perishable items. This mobile unit is taken to 20 different sites throughout La Crosse County each month. 
“Each site is preloaded before so we are able to serve between twenty and forty families based on family size at each stop,” says Waldhart. "We have a new mobile pantry manager and he has just exploded the program. He's up to 100 to 150 or more families than we saw at our highest and now we're serving between 300 and 350 families on the mobile unit.”

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