Filling the Gap The Heart of Our Mission
The West Ohio Food Bank and the City of Lima’s Police Department are providing a new opportunity to “Filling the Gap.” This new collaboration allows for the essential needs to be met that officers may encounter and see when answering calls around the city.
How it works.
Your food bank is providing the Police department with food, snacks, baby necessities and hygiene items, when available, to give to individuals in need that officers may come into contact with. This is a first for the food bank and they hope it will reach people they may not already assist. The police department sees it as an opportunity to build better relations with those they serve and to provide them with food during the night.
Officers can also give the person a voucher to go to the food bank as part of the “Filling the Gap” food program. Anyone in need of food can contact the food bank for assistance.
What You Need to Know
If you receive a voucher from the Lima police department when police officers respond to a call and encounter a victim or a household in need.
• When turning this into the West Ohio Food Bank please make sure your name is clear and legible on the voucher.
• A staff member will bring you up a Dry, cooler, and frozen food box.
• If the victim needs a delivery please call 419-222-7946 ext. 206 for Grant Rummel.
Filling the Gap
Allen County
started in
Fill that gap
“A lot of times we don’t get there until two in the morning. So there’s that gap of time they’re still hungry till the next day when they can get the food. So we thought why don’t we have a small supply of food that we keep at the police department that we can actually bring to them and drop it off to fill that gap until they have time to have food delivered to their house or go to the food bank and retrieve food.”
Help us reach individuals
“Let’s try to see if as their going out on calls whether it be domestic violence, they’re doing wellness checks, or whatever it may be, if they see this need could they help us to reach these individuals and let them know there is help out there,”