HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — We all know there’s an pressing must get meals to our neighbors not simply now, however year-round. So, we have launched the ABC13 Share Your Holidays meals drive a bit early.
Throughout the federal government shutdown, which has since ended, some meals banks mentioned they’d seen as much as an 1,800% surge in demand since SNAP (Supplemental Diet Help Program) advantages have been halted.
Whereas these advantages are anticipated to be restored, the Houston Meals Financial institution is a kind of teams that rapidly answered the decision to ensure impacted households did not miss a meal.
In case your SNAP advantages or pay have been interrupted, you will discover meals distribution websites via the meals financial institution right here.
However as the necessity continues, there are simple methods to assist our neighbors via the ABC13 Share Your Holidays Drive for those who’re able to take action.
Methods to Give
– Textual content “SYH2025” to 71777
– Scan the QR code seen on-air throughout Share Your Holidays tales
– Go to the 2025 SYH fundraising web page on-line
How can I assist throughout Share Your Holidays?
What began as an thought to place a meals drive on TV for an hour has morphed right into a Houston-area vast occasion going robust 45 years later because the ABC13 Share Your Holidays Meals Drive.
Since 1980, the yr the drive launched at ABC13, tens of millions upon tens of millions of cans of meals have been collected via Share Your Holidays.
So, it doesn’t matter what occurs subsequent, Share Your Holidays will proceed with its identical mission to serve.
You’ll be able to watch our 2024 ABC13 Share Your Holidays Drive within the video participant.
Houston Oilers celebrity Earl Campbell and teammate Tim Wilson have been so moved by the event, they arrived on the station with baggage of groceries.
Each males spent the day with ABC13 personally thanking donors as they dropped off meals, and what was alleged to final an hour was a daylong occasion.
That spirit of generosity in southeast Texas continues.
This yr, be a part of Eyewitness Information all day lengthy from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. You’ll be able to watch our one hour reside particular on ABC13 and wherever you stream us on that day from 9-10 a.m.
As soon as once more, it is about foodraising and fundraising.
Bear in mind, each $1 you give helps present three meals for individuals in want.
All donations keep in our native communities, serving to the Houston Meals Financial institution serve our neighbors in 18 counties via their 1,600 group companions.
The foodraising, usually essentially the most enjoyable half, occurs via dropping off donations at any considered one of our eight drive-thru areas listed under
Drop-Off Areas (Hours Range)
Houston
Houston Meals Financial institution – Portwall
535 Portwall St. Houston, TX 77029
Hours: 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Baytown
Baytown Hearth and Rescue
4723 Garth Rd. Baytown, Texas 77521-2137
Hours: 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Galveston
Galveston ISD Ball HS
4115 Avenue O Galveston, Texas 77550
Hours: 8 a.m. – Midday
Spring
Spring Ismaili Jamatkhana
24525 Group Middle Dr. Spring, TX 77389
Hours: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Richmond/Rosenberg
VFW Corridor Put up 3903
1903 1st St., Rosenberg, Texas 77471
Hours: 6 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Katy
Harris Co. ESD No. 48
24127 Western Centre Dr. Katy, Texas 77494
Hours: 8 a.m. – Midday
Sugar Land
Sugar Land Ismaili and Jamatkhana Middle
1700 First Colony Boulevard Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Hours: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Pearland
Pearland Neighborhood Middle
2335 N Texas Ave, Pearland, TX77581
Hours: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Most-needed Gadgets
You’ll find a full record on the Houston Meals Financial institution web site.
Shelf-Secure Snacks:
Granola bars
Crackers
Path combine
Nuts
Dried fruits
Canned items (Low sodium, pull prime most well-liked):
Meats
Fruits
Greens
Pastas
Beans
Soups
Drinks:
Water
Sports activities drinks
Shelf-stable milk
Shelf-stable juice (low sugar)
What does meals insecurity appear to be via Houston and in Texas?
Round a million individuals in southeast Texas are meals insecure, that means they lack constant entry to sufficient nutritious meals to gasoline a wholesome way of life, based on the Houston Meals Financial institution.
An FY ’24 report from the meals financial institution additionally notes that 1 in 5 individuals in its service space is meals insecure and that may imply having to make tough decisions corresponding to skipping meals to pay payments or not going to medical appointments.
As well as, meals insecurity can have many faces.
Based on the report, 85% of meals insecure houses have a working grownup. Seventy-two p.c of the individuals the meals financial institution serves are owners.
An Aug. 18, 2025, report launched by the Kinder Institute for City Analysis’s Middle for Group and Public Well being exhibits greater than half of residents expertise average or excessive meals insecurity in a lot of northern Harris County, together with 80% within the Greenspoint and IAH space.
Kinder’s report discovered that 39% of Houston and Harris County households are meals insecure, considerably exceeding the nationwide common of 14%. Different key findings in Kinder’s report have been that family meals insecurity is highest amongst Black (53%) and Hispanic (47%) residents, in addition to households incomes lower than $35,000 yearly (59%).
Hispanic girls endure the most important gender hole in family meals insecurity, the Kinder Institute mentioned.
The state of affairs is simply as severe statewide.
Feeding Texas, a member of Feeding America, says that Texas has the very best meals insecurity inhabitants within the nation, with 5.3 million Texans dealing with meals insecurity.
Feeding Texas is a statewide community of meals banks and the most important hunger-relief community within the Lone Star State.
Texas has the very best price of senior meals insecurity within the nation with 13.6% of Texas seniors in danger for starvation, whereas 22.2%, or 1 in 5 Texas youngsters, expertise starvation, based on Feeding Texas.
Rural Texans additionally usually face larger charges of meals insecurity as a result of distinctive challenges of residing remotely corresponding to lack of transportation, low wages and underemployment.
Feeding Texas additionally experiences that one in 4 Latinos are experiencing meals insecurity. The general meals insecurity price for Latinos in Texas is 24%.
With the necessity solely persevering with to develop, ABC13 hopes to exceed our 2013 document of 1,627,115 meals, with Share Your Holidays donations being accepted via New Yr’s Eve.
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