Yesterday during the Special Session, the
House and Senate supported critical resources for New Mexicans. “This
$300 million relief package will help families, communities, and
businesses across the state—and the inclusion of $5 million in funding
for food banks will help to provide meals to thousands of families
struggling to put food on the table,” said Representative Stansbury. “We
are so incredibly grateful for the work the food banks, pantries,
shelters, and meal programs across the state do to help feed New
Mexicans. And we are especially thankful this relief is coming in time
for the holidays.”
Mag Strittmatter, President and CEO of
Roadrunner Foodbank reacted to the Special Session saying, “This Special
Session was extremely significant for Roadrunner Food Bank and our four
partner food banks. We will all be able to acquire the many millions of
meals needed to help the growing number of food insecure neighbors in
the state, while in the throes of this pandemic. We are so grateful to
all who helped make this possible!”
“On behalf of the five New
Mexico food banks, I thank our legislators for acknowledging the
increased need for emergency food assistance by approving $5 million for
food bank services,” said Sherry Hooper, executive director of The Food
Depot and President of the New Mexico Food Banks Association. “During
the special session, legislators demonstrated their concern for hungry
New Mexicans and their commitment to ending hunger in our state during
this pandemic.”
"The fact that this special assistance received
such broad bipartisan support is a sign that New Mexicans are working
together to address the immediate hunger needs of the people in our
state," said Carlos Navarro, convener of the Interfaith Hunger
Coalition.
Representative Ferrary from Las Cruces, a long-time
advocate for addressing food insecurity described her own reaction, “I
too am so thrilled and relieved to know NM really does care about making
sure we can reach every child, family and senior through the extensive
distribution and outreach that the Foodbanks and food pantries have set
up across the State! We need to continue this support as well as other
policy recommendations identified by the Food, Hunger, Water and
Agriculture Policy Group.”
New Mexico First invites all
interested stakeholders to participate in the Food, Hunger, Water, and
Agriculture Policy Workgroup. To learn more and find minutes from
previous meetings, please follow this link. The Teams tab has information about meeting days/times. | | |
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