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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
John Arnold van Hengel was a grassroots activist and entrepreneur credited as being the "Father of Food Banking". In 1967, van Hengel founded St. Mary's Food Bank, the world's first food bank in Phoenix, Arizona. He would later go on to create Feeding America, helping to spread the food banking concept across the United States, and eventually the rest of the world.
The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?
It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing anyone anything.