Our food co-ops provide food on a regular basis to folks who need it.  We have 4 food co-ops with 200 families, and we have a waiting list of 106 families (we closed it to keep from having more!).  Every co-op meets every other week and for a $3 handling fee, a medium-sized family will receive a box of food worth $70-$100!  This creates FOOD SECURITY for people--they don’t have to worry about having food, they don’t have to be visiting food pantries, and they have more money to help KEEP THEM IN THEIR HOMES!  Besides all that, our co-ops CREATE COMMUNITY, because when we gather, people meet each other, work together, frequently eat together and get to be friends with new people. 

   Above on the right, getting ready to load food into boxes at a recent co-op meeting.  There’s a lot to load!  We normally haul about 1 ton of food to each meeting.  Top left, Beulah Colbert, President of Co-op #1.  Bottom left, Annie Mae Chandler has her great granddaughter, Gentricia Jordan, 12, on her knee.  We are blessed to have many multi-generational groupings among the families in our co-ops.

The mission of the Georgia Avenue Food Cooperative is to create in the name of the Lord membership communities of up to 50 households that give members a sense of extended family and the opportunity to work together to provide supplemental nourishment (tummy and soul) so that no body is hungry.