Kountze Food Pantry is located in the area between downtown and midtown Omaha. This area has a high concentration of persons experiencing homelessness, seniors, working poor, veterans, migrants and immigrants, students and refugee families. 1/3 of the people we provide food and hygiene products for are children. We also provide for a nursing school and street ministry and other agencies. We are open Monday mornings from 10 AM to 1 PM, with volunteers arriving at 7 AM., and Friday evening from 5 PM to 7 PM, with volunteers arriving at 3:30 PM. We also come in at various times during the week to bring donations and to organize. In that time we fed 48,137 individuals, including 16,374 children in 2022. The numbers are increasing in 2023 with more working poor needing our services every week. Our goal is to provide enough nutritious food for each person for one week. We need frozen meat, fresh vegetables, rice, beans, pasta and sauce, oatmeal, canned meat and beans. We are also needing hygiene products such as tampons and pads, diapers, shampoo, soap toothbrushes and toothpaste, deodorant and especially toilet tissue. We would love to have any of these items.
This listing was last updated Aug 18, 2023
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When Pantry is not open please call 402-341-7761. We can only accept hard produce on non-pantry days. We are closed on Federal holidays and Easter and Christmas.
We can accept donations when the Church is open weekdays from 9 AM to 4 PM. Please call 402-341-7761 to donate when the Pantry is not open.
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