Care-A-Van Ministries receives grant from the Walmart Foundation
It is the largest grant Care-A-Van Ministries has ever received from the Walmart Foundation.
On hand to present the $60,000 grant check to Care-A Van Ministries was Jason Klipa, director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Walmart. Klipa says the Walmart Foundation awards grants twice a year and today's grant award was part of the Foundation's Hunger Program.
"It's a great way to give back to the Batavia Community and Care-A-Van Ministries is an amazing operation," Klipa says.
Paul Ohlson, president of Care-A-Van Ministries, says in the past year they were able to feed about 5,000 people. He has been operating the mobile food pantry to deliver free groceries, hope and prayer to those in need for about 13 years.
The grant awarded today will help not only in purchasing food products but replacing aging equipment on their fleet of vehicles and maintaining them.
Ohlson says, "This will go beyond the food, our vehicles are the heart of our ministry. God always provides us with what we need."
Ohlson giving a tour to Walmart Foundation representatives.
Pictured from left, Paul Ohlson, Care-A-Van Ministries president, Al Maiorino, president Public Strategy Group, and Jason Klipa, director of Public Affairs & Government Relations for Walmart.
