Helping the local community - in Baltimore, MD

Terri Summerhill shops online for her weekly groceries at Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Orleans Street branch in the new Virtual Supermarket Project funded by $60,000 in federal stimulus money to Baltimore’s, Food Policy Task Force. The program, unveiled in early March, offers laptops at the library where residents can order from a local grocer and pick the items up from the Orleans Street or Washington Village branches. The branches are in the city’s biggest “food desert” areas targeted by the city Health Department for their scarcity of grocery stores and nutritious food options.