Freeport Food Pantry, Fighting Poverty and Hunger on Long Island
By Audra Kincaid
Nassau News Staff Writer
Long Island faces a big problem: poverty and hunger.
Nassau News Staff Writer
Long Island faces a big problem: poverty and hunger.
Every year over 259,000 Long Islanders go to soup kitchens and food pantries in need of food. This is why the Mobilized Interfaith Coalition Against Hunger, in order to discover the causes of poverty and who is most effected by it, was created. Come take a look inside the Freeport Food Pantry and find out the shocking population that needs the most help from these outreach programs.
To view Audra Kincaid's video report on the Freeport Food Pantry, click on the embedded player below:
For more information, please visit the Poverty on Long Island tumblelog the reporter created to enhance this article.
This multimedia article is the final project for Hofstra University's JRNL 215, a graduate course in web journalism.
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