DCHS is excited to be selected as a charity partner for Safeway and Safeway Foundation to receive donations from the annual Hunger Is campaign to eradicate childhood hunger.

“We are too powerful, too big, and too bad to let our kids go hungry!” said Dr. Beverley Wheeler, director of DCHS, at the recent Maternal & Infant Health Summit. To see more of what DCHS is doing, check out our Facebook page.

Of all the full-service grocery stores in the District of Columbia, only two are located in Ward 7 and just one is in Ward 8, according to our report, Closing the Grocery Store Gap in the Nation’s Capital.