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Truck filled with food for local hungry will debut at Orange River Elementary
June 15, 2009 (FORT MYERS, FL) – In 1984, a group of citizens began handing out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from the back of a truck to their community neighbors who were hungry.
Twenty-five years later, the simple concept of feeding those in [...]
By Anne Marie Apollo, Friday, August 4, 2006
Coming back from the brink takes a job. For some, it takes help in the form of food stamps or disability checks. And that requires the one thing the poorest of the poor don’t have: an address. Sarah Owen, the executive director of Community Cooperative Ministries in Fort [...]
Community Cooperative Ministries (CCMI) was incorporated in 1984, and has long been a driving force in the Fort Myers community, providing food to homeless and nearly homeless, as well as emergency groceries and affordable childcare to the working poor. In July of 2006 the agency expanded its mission and outreach to Lee County by merging with agencies that had historically provided home delivered meals to the homebound hungry (Meals on Wheels), and transportation services to the frail elderly (Faith In Action) and The Soup Kitchen. This merger created an agency that is able to provide comprehensive, unduplicated services to the homeless, nearly homeless, homebound, seniors and children more effectively, more efficiently and with greater compassion than at any other time in the former agencies histories.