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SURVEY: Help us serve our community even BETTER!
This is our 40th year providing food and support to the community! Please fill out this short survey to help us to continue to provide the most relevant items with safety and convenience. CLICK HERE to take the brief survey.
Read MoreRescued Food and the Food Pantry
Here at Good Samaritan Food Pantry, every week we rescue hundreds of pounds of perishable food from a variety of retailers in the western suburbs of the Des Moines metro. These food items are still fresh and edible, and are available to all our patrons every week on both Monday and Tuesday. We are so thankful for…
Read MoreBackpack Meals Program
The Good Samaritan Food Pantry sponsors a program called Backpack Meals. Backpack meals provide meals to students in grade K-12 that are food insecure on the weekends. Without anyone knowing, school personnel quietly puts the meals into the Backpacks of each child K-5. At the 6-12 level, students stop by a designated area to put…
Read MoreDid You Know?
With its expanded service area Good Samaritan is now helping our neighbors in over 50% of Dallas County (a total of 300 square miles and a population around 14,000). We serve anyone with a mailing address of Adel, DeSoto, Dexter, Linden, Minburn, Redfield and Van Meter. “We only ask for you to bring a current…
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