By Stacey Jones
Rock River Current
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The mission of the Rock River Valley Pantry is to provide healthy, nutritionally balanced food to families, individuals and elderly persons who are in need of assistance.

The pantry serves more than 6,000 people each and every month, about one-third of whom are children. About 10% are elderly. Children who are hungry can suffer cognitive development in addition to experiencing health issues related to hunger. In our community, we have low-income families and elderly struggling each day who often are forced to make decisions between eating and taking important medications.

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If you are interested in volunteering your time or making a donation to the pantry, you can call 815-965-2466.

You can also find more information about the pantry by visiting their website: rrvp.org.

This article is by Stacey Jones. If you have a favorite charitable organization that you would like to see featured during The 25 Days of Caring contact her at sjones@rmgmwf.com.