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)…