Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy has been on a mission making sure families have enough food during the pandemic. The line starts outside her home several hours before Murphy’s Giving Market opens every Tuesday. Her makeshift food pantry started by helping nearly a dozen families, and now it serves close to 100 families every week. The ‘Sandwich Hero’…
An Upper Darby woman is serving hungry families in her community right from her own home. Inspired by her own hunger as a child, Desiree Lamarr-Murphy set out on an anti-hunger mission and formed a free food pantry, Murphy’s Giving Market, in her house on Sellers Avenue in Upper Darby. By doing so, she is…
Anti-hunger advocates often talk about fighting hunger in their own backyards. Desiree Lamar Murphy took that call to action literally. Seeing rising hunger rates in her community due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she began operating Murphy’s Giving Market in the backyard of her Upper Darby home. Desiree and her dedicated team of volunteers have served…
Desiree Lamarr is on a mission to end food insecurity. To help fight food insecurity in her community, Desiree Lamarr started Murphy’s Giving Market. She feeds hundreds of local families right out of her backyard.
UPPER DARBY, Pa. – A mother of five is on a mission to help people trying to keep food on the table during the pandemic so she opened a pantry in her backyard in Upper Darby. “We set up social distancing guidelines and we just put the word out. It just started to explode,” Desiree…
Memories of not having enough to eat fueled Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy to first help herself, then to help others. Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy grew up without enough food. Back in the mid-1980s, school days were the hardest, when she’d sit without lunch in the cafeteria of the former William B. Mann Elementary School (now Mastery Charter Mann Elementary)…