Three El Paso nonprofit organizations are receiving $34 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, part of $4.2 billion she is giving to 384 groups nationally. El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, the United Way of El Paso County ...
Lorena Montoya, like thousands of El Pasoans facing financial hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been relying on the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank to help feed her family. Montoya, who cleans houses for ...
By Rosemary Marin Two weeks ago, the unemployment rate in El Paso hit a historic high of 15 percent. Since COVID-19 began in our region, more than 50,000 people have filed unemployment claims, while hundreds ...
The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank hopes to continue a pilot program to deliver thousands of emergency food boxes to vulnerable families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May, more than 2,000 food boxes have ...
As the number of El Pasoans filing unemployment claims continues to rise, there is another number rising, too — people in need of food. Thousands of people from the Upper Valley to the Lower Valley ...
National Guard soldiers have been assigned to help El Paso’s food bank in the face of overwhelming demand caused by job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been awarded 109 Guardsmen assigned to us ...
Volunteers and donations are desperately needed by many El Paso organizations in response to COVID-19. With so many El Pasoans homebound for the foreseeable future, there has never been a better time to consider how ...
By Susan Goodell El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank has undertaken the task of feeding every single hungry El Pasoan, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March. As the weeks went on, it became ...