Hillsborough County - Feeding Tampa Bay estimates over 144,000 Hillsborough County residents don’t know where their next meal is coming from, with children and seniors hit especially hard.

What we know:

In Progress Village, a brand-new food pantry called The Foodtique is stepping in to help. The pantry opened this week in the Progress Village Shopping Center with support from Metro Ministries, United Way, Hillsborough County, and Mosaic.

The backstory:

Twanda Bradley, president of the Progress Village Civic Council and founder of the nonprofit Grow My Giving , first noticed the problem during the pandemic. Families in Progress Village, Palm River, and Clair-Mel were struggling to afford food or get to grocery stores.

Her nonprofit partnered with Metropolitan Ministries to host mob

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