People’s Resource Center, Basic Needs

Poverty in DuPage County may not look like what you or I might expect. In this story, we meet a college educated mother of five, who found herself in need.

Since 1975, People’s Resource Center has been bringing neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage, County, Illinois.

Services that meet people’s basic needs include food pantries that provide more than 7,000 families with 35,000 grocery carts filled with a week’s worth of food including fresh produce, frozen meats and bread.