The pandemic caused an explosion in the level of need. Now food banks around the country are pursuing expansion projects to ramp up their output.
Volunteer group leader Bruce Beecham works to sort food items in the Atlanta Food Bank's Hunger Action Center Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in College Park, Ga. : Food banks have ramped up their output during the coronavirus pandemic to meet an explosion of need from families facing financial hardship. Now, some are preparing to permanently boost their food distribution with major expansion projects driven in part by their experiences during the pandemic.
Even though demand for fresh and packaged provisions has dropped from pandemic peaks, the need remainsFeeding South Florida is planning a large new plant to increase its produce supply. Two North Carolina food banks flush with cash from In Utah, one of two new warehouses will be near a Native American reservation that was a challenge to serve during the pandemic, said Bott. The second site will offer free dinners to kids, a population that suffered acutely from food insecurity when schools that provided meals went virtual.
Meanwhile, Feeding South Florida is planning to build a 50,000- to 80,000-square-foot plant to freeze and package produce. The goal is to take in more crops during the growing season and then make them available year-round, said CEO Paco Velez.persistent food insecurity Helen Moody, a 60-year-old disabled U.S. Army veteran, has relied on the pantry for groceries since 2017. Moody said she and her husband live off $2,000 a month and do not qualify for federal food assistance.
The Atlanta Community Food Bank’s new facility near Atlanta’s international airport has a food storage area equal to roughly five and a half football fields. A tour of the facility last month provided a glimpse of the advantages a larger site provides.
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