How We Help

The Wichita Falls Area Food Bank provides food directly to our partners - qualified charitable agencies offering food assistance and/or feeding programs. These agencies then distribute the food, free of charge, to their hungry clients. The types of agencies that partner with us at the Food Bankserved include emergency pantries, youth programs, senior citizen programs, soup kitchens, rehab centers, shelters, halfway houses, and low-income day care centers.

Food comes to the Food Bank from a variety of sources: local food drives, area growers, wholesalers and retailers with edible but unsaleable food, other food banks like Feeding America and its affiliates, and the Texas Commodities Asssitance Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To keep a balanced inventory, some high-demand food products are purchased by the Food Bank.

Donated food is inspected, sanitized and properly stored until it is requested by a partner agency.