Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation

10/31/2026

SIHAF’s $100,000 Hunger Awareness Matching Challenge is underway and runs through December 31st. The annual Challenge supports 3 Foundation Programs and 11 local community Partners such as MOMs, featured below. Your generosity can help strengthen the programs and community partners that nourish our Johns and Wadmalaw Island neighbors. Join us this Season of Giving to help meet growing needs and extend the reach of compassion close to home.
Give today at SIHAF.org and be part of the difference!

Meals on Mondays (MOMs)- A Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation Partner.
Founded in 2002, MOMs prepares and delivers home-cooked meals for 80–90 neighbors on Wadmalaw Island every Monday, regardless of income or circumstance. A beautiful example of a community caring for its own!
Recipients are homebound elderly neighbors, local neighbors facing health challenges and families navigating difficult situations. Most have limited or no access to transportation.
At the heart of the operation is Mary Agnes Seabrook, who oversees the ministry and coordinates its many moving parts. She also follows up on concerns raised by delivery volunteers who are often aware of a family’s other needs and connects them with resources when additional help is needed.
MOMs, Amor Healing Kitchen, and Charleston Meals on Wheels are all SIHAF partners who demonstrate compassion by nourishing our Johns and Wadmalaw Island’s homebound neighbors with meals, resources and compassion..

10/24/2026

HCA Healthcare recently put its motto Caring Like Family —Beyond Our Hospital Walls, into action for the Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation (SIHAF). HCA employees joined SIHAF’s Blessing Basket volunteer team by helping prepare for the monthly Blessing Basket Distribution Event held on October 10th. Blessing Baskets contain fresh fruits & vegetables, eggs, butter, meats and foods for the pantry. These items, help stretch the food budgets for over 300 families living on Johns and Wadmalaw Islands.
HCA's generosity continued with a $2,000 donation collected from HCA employees, 50 crockpots to support SIHAF’s Crockpot Cooking Program and a truckload of nutritious canned foods to be used in the Blessing Baskets.
SIHAF is deeply grateful to HCA Healthcare for their extraordinary generosity. Thank you for truly Caring Like Family! Thank you to SIHAF board members and volunteers including Melanie Jangro, Lee Johnson, Carole Heilman and Mellinda Yocum who with HCA transformed this extraordinary gift into meaningful support for the benefit of our Sea Island neighbors.See less

To learn more or DONATE to the Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation and the Blessing Basket program go to - SIHAF.org

10/10/2026

Thursday and Friday are Blessing Basket Produce Packing Days for the Saturday distribution. 310 bags were packed over the past 2 days with produce donated by Fields to Families. Yellow squash, cucumbers, cabbage, jumbo sweet potatoes and more. We are grateful for Fields to Families and our hardworking volunteers. Thank you.

10/08/2026

Wednesdays = Packing Day!

Every Wednesday before a Blessing Basket distribution, SIHAF volunteers turn grocery bags into baskets of nourishment—one item at a time.
Today, over 20 volunteers took on the challenge, working assembly-line style to fill 300 grocery bags with 17 different nutritious, shelf-stable pantry staples. Everything from vegetables, fruit, pasta sauce and peanut butter to rice, dry beans, oats and pasta. That’s a whopping 5,100 grocery items packed and ready to go!
And that’s just the beginning. The shelf-stable foods are one part of each Blessing Basket. Tomorrow, the fresh produce arrives, bringing even more goodness—and a little taste of what’s in season.

10/02/2026

The Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation's annual Matching Challenge begins today, October 1st and runs through December 31st. Rooted in community and nourished by compassion, we bring together 11 local partners and 3 hands-on programs to coordinate dependable, healthy food and clean water solutions for island families in need. To learn more and donate go to SIHAF.org

09/29/2026

I hope you have a beautiful day out in the fields. Carol

We are looking for some hardworking volunteers to help w**d this upcoming Tuesday, Septermber 29th, from 9-11am on a Johns Island farm. Please come prepared with appropriate shoes and clothing for the job! This site has bee hives. Please fill out a waiver if you have never been out with us before an...

09/20/2026

Last Saturday, 308 Blessing Baskets were distributed to our neighbors living on Johns & Wadmalaw Islands. And, the need continues to grow. Each month, new families are signing up to receive the monthly Blessing Baskets. Thanks to all the volunteers who worked through the rain greeting each family that drove up and loading in bags of groceries. They were rewarded with a large rainbow high above Bohicket Road. Many, many watermelons were donated by Fields to Families. SIHAF Board Chair, Shep McKinley's job was to load them into each car. Thanks Shep. (Pictured ) And we are grateful to Fields to Families, a SIHAF partner, who grew, harvested and delivered so many watermelons along with other fresh from the field produce.

06/14/2026

June brings an abundance of produce in the Lowcountry. This month’s Blessing Baskets were overflowing with a colorful and nutritious mix of fresh fruit and vegetables along with meat, eggs, cheese, butter and other pantry items. Thank you to Fields to Families and the Lowcountry Food Bank for sharing their bounty of produce. Thanks also to all of the Blessing Basket Volunteers who packed and distributed 300 Blessing Baskets for our neighbors in need.

The Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation (SIHAF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in South Carolina operating the Blessing Basket Program, which feeds up to 300 families monthly. To Volunteer or Donate go to https://www.fightislandhunger.org/copy-of-home

05/26/2026

The Exchange Club of Kiawah - Seabrook SC presented a check for $5000.00 to the Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation at the annual Exchange Club's Angel Oak Awards Banquet held on May 20th.
The award was given in honor of Leroy Blake, SIHAF Board Member and Volunteer who was the 2026 recipient of the Angel Oak Award.
The check was presented by Chris Stephenson, Exchange Club Foundation President to Shirley Salvo, SIHAF Founder and Leroy Blake.
The funds will be used to support SIHAF's Blessing Basket Program. This program serves up to 300 island families who live below the poverty level each month. 80% of the clients are over 60 or under 18 years.

To donate to the Blessing Basket Program go to:
https://Fightislandhunger.org
Each $50.00 donation will cover the cost of one Blessing Basket that will provide enough food for a family for 2 weeks.