food insecurity

Hosted at Voorhees University in Denmark, South Carolina, the food drive brought fresh produce and proteins to rural residents who either cannot access the types of food distributed or cannot afford to add the items into their personal budgets.

Food insecurity among students of all ages is rising. However, school meal programs face significant funding issues with the national public-school meal debt reaching $176 million annually.

Lancaster County's two main stops for residents needing food assistance have swapped which agency oversees USDA food program for low-income residents. The growing need for assistance all but demanded it.

Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Nesh Hikmet, an information technology professor at the University of South Carolina and co-owner of Tom’s Creek Family Farms in Hopkins, S.C., the Farmers Market Xchange in Columbia, and the Tom’s Creek Family Farms Mobile Market.

Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Nesh Hikmet, an information technology professor at the University of South Carolina and co-owner of Tom’s Creek Family Farms in Hopkins, S.C., the Farmers Market Xchange in Columbia, and the Tom’s Creek Family Farms Mobile Market.

The COVID-19 pandemic halted a summer feeding program for kids in Marlboro County. It finally returned, in a county where one in three children does not have a guaranteed next meal.

Without power since last weekend's hailstorm, Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen has been unable to cook food. Many of its neighbors are in the same spot.

A weekend storm that hammered a section of Rock Hill has energized the community's spirit. But there's still a long way to go before Southside is back to normal.

Rumored to be closing (it's not) Spartanburg Soup Kitchen is seeing a steady uptick in residents coming in for meals and, almost as vital, shoes to get them by.

Starting March 4, the City of Columbia will be launching a mobile food market to help combat the food disparity problem in the area.