The Akron-Canton Regional Meals Financial institution has an inventory of meals pantries that may be searched on their web site.
Listed below are a number of the pantries in Portage County:
The Salvation Military, Ravenna
The Ravenna Meals Pantry at 268 W. Most important St. is open from 9:30 am to 11:30 am and from 1 pm to three:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A Pink Defend Kent drive-through pantry can also be held on the primary Wednesday of each month in Kent and the fourth Thursday of each month in Windham.
Hope Middle/Christian Wardrobe, Ravenna
The Middle of Hope, 1081 W. Most important St., Ravenna, operates its pantry Monday via Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to three p.m. The pantry is closed from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Lunch is served from 11:00 a.m. to three:00 p.m. 30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on weekdays and drive-thru from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Lake Brady United Methodist Church
The church, at 1995 Brady Lake Highway, gives its meals pantry from 10 am to 1 pm or by appointment, and a scorching meal from 5:30 to 7 pm on the third Wednesday of the month.
Kent Social Companies
Kent Social Companies, 1066 S. Water St., gives The Lord’s Pantry from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm weekdays and serves lunch from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm weekdays. On the second and fourth Thursdays, the pantry is open till 5:30 p.m. and dinner is served from Four-5 p.m.
The pantry, at 8940 State Route 43, is open 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, and 1 p.m. to three:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Crestwood 4C
The pantry, at 4572 W. Prospect St., Mantua, is open Monday from Four to six p.m. and Wednesday and Friday from 1 to three p.m.