Food Pantry Volunteer | Help Feed Families in the Lower Ninth Ward

lowernine.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the long-term recovery of New Orleans’ historic Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches of 2005. We also respond to more recent disasters here at home and away, and provide food security solutions in our community. We are actively engaged in the long-term recovery and ongoing support of the hardest-hit, slowest-recovering neighborhood in New Orleans. During the initial stages of COVID-19 in 2020, lowernine.org distributed food out of a neighborhood parking lot - in November of that year, we opened a permanent brick and mortar pantry now located at our office/volunteer house at 1739 Jourdan Avenue, with shifts on Saturdays from 9.00am to 3.00pm. You may be asked to support client intake, help clients "shop" for groceries, load boxes into client vehicles, or help to restock and organize shipments of donated food items during your time wing groceries into client vehicles, and manage food stock.