A Food Pantry Story

Thanks to, Morgan -- EECM's fabulous PULSE intern -- for this story from our Food Pantry.

East End Cooperative Ministry is an approved Dollar Energy partner organization. The Dollar Energy Fund provides financial assistance low-income families who have fallen behind in their utility payments and are in immediate danger of service termination, or have already had their services shut off.

For some people, the lack of utility service is not just an inconvenience, but a matter of life and death. This was the case for Margo, a recent visitor to EECM’s Food Pantry. Margo came to the Pantry to receive groceries, and shared with our volunteers that her electricity had been shut off.

Margo has several serious medical conditions that require her to use an electric oxygen machine. Without her electricity, her life was literally at risk. We immediately helped her file the necessary paperwork to connect with Dollar Energy and her electricity was restored.

While the electric company was doing their job by turning off the electricity since it had been unpaid, little did they know the high cost it would come to this woman, in terms of her health!