In 2010, Pan De Vida was started as a way to love on neighbors in Little Village. The Mother/Daughter team Celina and Claudia faithfully worked with a team of volunteers to feed 100 families every Friday. Their love, faithfulness, and prayer has provided thousands of people with boxes of hope, filled with food. In 2020 when COVID-19 hit our communities, their faithfulness had prepared the way for a miracle! In April, Pan De Vida started feeding 400 families a week. Then, in partnership with Greater Chicago Food Depository, Pan De Vida started feeding over 6,000 families (30,000 people) per week by June 2020. These boxes of hope expanded to 7 sites across the city. We hired 12 of our young people, and empowered hundreds of volunteers, to rise to the need. In September 2020, we purchased the corner store at 2701 S. Lawndale in Little Village and it will become a full-time food distribution site. It will be a place of hope through groceries and relationships. Throughout the pandemic, Pan De Vida fed over 1.8 million people and will continue to love on our neighborhoods. Our goal is not only to provide food to families, but to build relationships and connect them to other resources.