Photojournalism Project

A variety of food being prepared for the local needy individuals arriving soon.

Prepared food being given to a bagger and placed on a table in the back to be offered to the needy.

I'm Lee Modugno, a photography student at Mira Costa High. You can <a href="https://leemod.weebly.com/">check out my personal portfolio online.</a>

As of July 2022, 24.3% of. L.A. County households were food insecure. Food insecurity rates are highest for single-mother households and households with incomes below the poverty line. Of the homeless population in LA, 9% are under age 18, 32% are female, and16% are in family units (often headed by a single mother). You can contribute to Project NEEDS by donating money, food, hygiene items, infant products, or your time at St. Paul's United Methodist Church.

A child pulling a cereal box closer after asking one of the volunteers to grab it for them.

A room in the lower floor of the church used for storing donated goods.

My project is displaying what takes place at this church to help feed the needy around here. My purpose is to show where the needy in the area have to go to get food for them and their families to survive.

This food pantry has opened every night on Tuesdays for the last 30 years. There are hundreds of other pantries similar to this in the LA county.

A volunteer grabbing a canned good from one of many bags of goods donated to the kitchen.

Volunteers helping a visitor as he chooses what he wants to bring with him.

On average, 85 meals are served every time they host these. Over 2 million people in the US face food insecurity and at least 69000 are homeless.

A customer with his child about to leave after choosing some cereal and canned food.