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****IMPORTANT UPDATE****


An early-morning fire on Thursday August 18, 2011 at Appetite 4 Life destroyed all of our food (inventory still in progress, in excess of $75,000), destroyed our kitchen and smoked damaged our administrative offices. Escambia County School Board has graciously allowed us to use their cafeteria at Hallmark Elementary temporarily while we rebuild.

Donations of food, funds, and volunteers are being accepted at a our 402 W. Cervantes location. For information about how you can help call (850) 470-9111.

To make a donation now to help A4L to in its immediate recovery efforts click the donate button above.

For detailed information and additional pictures as the recovery efforts progress check out our newsletter The Phoenix


Appetite for Life, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 organization, founded 1996. Our mission is to provide nutritious, high quality meals at no charge to persons infected with or affected by HIV/ AIDS or other terminal illnesses and who are physician or case manager referred. This is accomplished through one of our three programs: Home Delivered Meals Program (HDMP), Food Pantry Program (FPP), and Ensure Nutritional Supplement Program (ENSP). We do not receive any government funding; our programs are funded by private foundations, individuals, and earned income.

There is a population of people living with HIV/AIDS in Escambia County who do not receive proper nutrition and thus suffer premature death. The reasons for malnutrition range from: inability to physically prepare meals, lack of reliable transportation to obtain nutritious food, homelessness and low-income.

We serve 34% of the HIV/AIDS population in Escambia County and their dependents, 61 of which are children. Most of our delivery clients are shut-ins. We are the only agency in Escambia County that provides these services to HIV/AIDS clients and their dependents. This is accomplished by a staff of three and 58 volunteers.

Appetite for Life provides catering from boxed lunches for business meetings to services for private parties, Bar Mitzvahs, birthdays, weddings, etc. and to other agencies & businesses. We began catering in 1999 to supplement our income so we could continue to provide meals to our clients. Since that time we have expanded our catering service. Appetite for Life works with other agencies to provide food to their clients as well. We provide meals for: COA Council on Aging, Senior Solutions Program, Elderly and Disabled Medicare waiver clients, Project AIDS Care Medicaid waiver clients, day care centers, and are just starting to provide meals for a new program of Elder Care. Our executive chef Rick Ling and our sous chef Paul Buckney ensure that meals to our clients and to all our catering events are of the best quality and meet the highest standards.

If you are interested in learning more about our catering please contact us at 470-9111 or email us at catering@appetite4life.org

Contact Information

Telephone
(850) 470-9111

FAX
(850) 470-0201

Postal Address
402 Cervantes Street
Pensacola, FL 32501

Electronic mail
General Information: info@appetite4life.org
Executive Director: celeste@appetite4life.org