Louisiana Rice Mills Join Efforts to Feed Flood Victims

ZACHARY, LA – Louisiana rice millers are once again stepping up to provide much needed rice to feed citizens who had to evacuate their homes due to last month’s weather disaster.  Many people displaced by the recent floods are having basic needs met by thousands of individuals through volunteer and nonprofit organizations.  One example is members of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church partnering with members of First Baptist Church, both of Zachary, Louisiana, to feed displaced area residents.

Their effort was initiated within days of record-breaking rains that inundated much of south Louisiana, and the feeding continues today.  Falcon Rice Mill and Louisiana Rice Mill have provided 800 pounds of rice to the churches for their feeding programs.  

Dr. Dearl Sanders, LSU AgCenter emeritus professor and feeding program volunteer, said, “Many of the affected residents of Zachary have returned to their homes under FEMA’s Shelter in Place program.  However, with homes gutted and all contents, including stoves, destroyed, they have no means to prepare meals.  So our churches have partnered to prepare approximately 200 meals twice daily, seven day a week.”

Sanders continued, “Everybody in Louisiana eats rice and you can feed a lot of people with 800 pounds.  I want to thank Falcon Rice Mill and Louisiana Rice Mill for their generous donation.”