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| Nogales, Arizona which sits on the border with our
sister city of Nogales, Sonora Mexico has always had a
high poverty and unemployment rate causing our citizens
to have hunger issues. After a few local organizations
like the Lions Club and Mariposa Community Health
Center, wrestled with trying to help feed the needy of
Santa Cruz County, it was decided, by those same
organizations that it was time to form a local food bank
thus giving birth to Borderland Food Bank in mid 1994. A
small warehouse was leased, and Borderland began to
distribute
Emergency Food Boxes and fresh
produce. |
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| At the beginning the food
bank had two food box programs,
to date we have eight food
distribution programs, our
largest being our
Produce
Program. Because we sit in
the center of the produce
industry, billions of pounds of
produce cross these gates from
Mexico via Canada and the United
States, some of which is donated
to Borderland Food Bank.
Borderland solicits, receives,
warehouses and distributes
between 20 and 38 million pounds
of unmarketable produce per
produce season. Prior to our
existence this nutritious
product was being dumped at the
local dumpsite causing
saturation of the site and waste
of good nutritious product. |
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| In 2002 with the help of a large grant from the
Arizona State Attorney General’s Office we were able to
purchase a 26,000 square foot warehouse. This warehouse
was originally built by a local produce company
therefore giving us all of the needed space and cold
rooms to house the produce. |
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| In late 2007, we merged
with Feed My People Children’s Charities and now have a
sister food bank,
Northern Arizona Food Bank. Strategically
situated, both Arizona Food Banks can help cover the
entire State with this nutritious produce. |
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| As stated in our Mission we
want to help feed the needy
nutritiously; hence this produce
is distributed first in our
community, second throughout the
State of Arizona and lastly is
offered to organizations
throughout the Nation. |
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We'd like
to encourage you to donate to
our food bank to help those in
need. All donations to our food
bank are tax deductible to the
extent allowed by law. Our Tax
ID number is 73-1330955. |
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Donate Today! |
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