The International Institute of St. Louis opened its first food pantry to help bring nutritious foods to immigrants, refugees and other residents in the region.
The food pantry offers canned goods, fresh vegetables and fruits, meats, pasta, cereals and packaged items every Monday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the institute’s headquarters on Arsenal Street. It also provides hygiene products and cleaning supplies.
Institute leaders partnered with Operation Food Search to bring the foods to the area because they saw an uptick in the need for food over the past year among their immigrant and refugee clients, said Maxwell Kelly, a community support manager at the International Institute of St Louis…