The mission of Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry is to help end local hunger by ensuring that everyone has access to enough nourishing food so that our community stays healthy and productive. We have invested deeply in finding new ways to achieve our mission with fewer volunteers and reinventing fundraising activities on which we have traditionally relied, to serve the 400 percent increase of people in need. In 2021, our community saw a rise in food insecurity and now 1 in 10 Kane County residents is food insecure.