OMAHA, Neb. —

Project Hope is working to keep food on the shelves for households in the Omaha metro area, a task that Executive Director Vera Keebler said is becoming increasingly difficult.

"Right now we're serving between 40 and 70 households a day. Five years ago, a normal average would have been 20 to 30," Keebler said.

"Groceries is very expensive. I don't get food stamps. You know, so I got to try to make ends meet and do what I can," said a local man.

Keebler noted the impact of rising costs and the lack of grants.

"The fact that the cost is going up. And right now we're not getting grants," she said. "We're not getting a lot of donations in and we are having a decrease in the amount that we're getting from the food bank because of their lack of food on hand."

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