Hope House in Wake Forest now serving free meals
Food insecurity – not knowing if you and your family will have enough to eat – is a heavy burden some people bear, but in Wake Forest now there is a simple solution: Provide meals for those families.
Hope House at 334 North Allen Road now serves free, nutritious dinners to families and individuals at 6:30 p.m. every day except Saturday. The meals are prepared by The Forks Cafeteria and families and individuals can either eat at Hope House or take the meals home. The meals are made possible by a private donor.
Hope House was founded by Friendship Chapel Missionary Baptist Church pastor, the Rev. Enoch Holloway, and his wife, the Rev. Marion Holloway, to serve the youth and community in Wake Forest’s East End. Norma Bennekin and Pastor Holloway are the leaders in arranging the dinners.
Andrew Brown Jr., the chair of the Northern Community Food Security Team, said the group is partnering with Bennekin, Holloway and Hope House “in terms of promotion and recruiting families or anything else they may need.”
In 2018, the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners endorsed Wake County’s Comprehensive Food Security Plan making the own the first in our area to join our area’s local food council, the Capital Area Food Network. The plan is designed to move the county February towards addressing hunger now and in the future.
The Northern Community Food Security Team was created to develop and launch a viable food security plan for northern Wake County that aligns with the Capital Area Food Network plan. The Wake Forest Board of Commissioners charged local food security team with enlisting community members, food security organizations, resource experts, and other stakeholders to develop activities, policies, and partnerships that will move the county towards food security and a sustainable food future.
