About Food for the Journey Project

Chuck Wourms, along with many family and friends, founded Food for the Journey Project in 2014 to provide a mobile response to hunger in the Dayton community. Since then, FJP has provided nearly 300,000 meals - all for free and served with dignity. 
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At FJP, we believe:

• Hunger is neighborhood-centric. We experience hunger and its impacts as a community, and we must address it the same way: as a community. 
• Every person has dignity and deserves to be treated with respect and kindness. 
• We have the opportunity to learn from every guest we encounter. 
• Our work is less about the number of meals served and more about the interactions we’re able to have with the people we work with and serve. Food is our vehicle to deliver compassion.

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pine, English author