Roadrunner is the largest non-profit dedicated to ending hunger in New Mexico. In fiscal year 2011, the Food Bank distributed nearly 23 million pounds of food through a network of agencies and regional food banks. Through this network, nearly 40,000 different children, seniors and adults are helped each week. The Food Bank provides food to nearly 300 hunger relief programs across the state in 16 counties. These ‘partner agencies’ include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, day care centers, and senior housing sites.
Roadrunner Food Bank also distributes food through direct service programs such as the Food for Kids Backpack Program providing 3500 children in 46 elementary schools with weekend food to take home. While low-income children can count on free/reduced breakfast/lunch meals at school, they may not have enough food to eat at home during the weekends or holidays.
Another direct service program includes the Food Bank’s Senior Helpings Program. Senior Helpings provides 15,000 food boxes annually to low-income seniors. Each box contains 30 meals for seniors living on small fixed or no incomes. Some seniors who receive the box have said it is their only source of food each month.
The Mobile Food Pantry is a traveling food pantry. It removes the need for large-capacity or long-term food storage, and targets areas that may not have food programs or where existing food programs are overwhelmed.
In 2011, nearly 4 million pounds of food was distributed through the program and provided meals to more than 230,000 people through the Mobile Food Pantry Program.