Bethony Morris Hancock/Daviess EFNEP

Success Story 2019/2020

Lend a Helping Hand

When coronavirus began to shut down businesses in Kentucky, we all began to feel the effects of it.  Hancock County Cooperative Extension, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) took this opportunity to team up, more than usual, with the local food pantry, churches, library, and the family resource center.

The churches in Hancock County have always been a big help in the community.  However with the pandemic, their generosity was needed more than ever.  Hancock County Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program was able to team up and delivered Chop Chops to give out with groceries.  This turned out be a great success!  There were people in the community that had never seen these magazines.   What a great way to help, giving groceries and a nutritional read.  Between a few different churches we reached over 100 people this way!

University of Kentucky Nutrition Education Program offers great resources for the youth, coloring papers, easy recipes, and helpful nutritional reading.  The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program assistant, Hancock Pubic Library, Hancock 4 H, and the family resources center all teamed up this summer to give out grab bags.  Combining all the great information into one bag was a great opportunity to help the kids in Hancock County.   The grab bags were offered several times since April, there have been more than 120 bags given away.

The Hancock food pantry and EFNEP have always tried to help each other with the community, making sure we got all the great, helpful information into the hands of everyone.   When the pandemic started the food pantry and EFNEP were able to work together once every month to make sure people who couldn’t make it to the food pantry were able to get their groceries.   At a local apartment complex, there was 35 families that didn’t have a ride, so their groceries along with Chop chops, and NEP class info were delivered.  Between March and September of this year that’s over 200 bags of groceries and  over 50 Chop chops given out.