The east coast continues to feel the impact of Hurricane Ian as much destruction was left behind; one local organization is stepping up and helping out.
Eric Cooper, President, and CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank, joined leading SA this weekend to discuss the organization’s efforts.
“We will be sending some of our operations team to help the food bank locally there in the impacted area meet the demands that they’ll see for the weeks and months to come,” Cooper said. “We owe a lot of gratitude to RBFCU for their support opening their branches. They became very convenient drop off locations for people that wanted to take action in the month of September and help us fight hunger. We also saw a huge increase in the amount of volunteers... So food volunteers and then financial contributions also were contributed there at the branches. And so we just want to thank San Antonio for helping us to go orange and taking action in the fight against hunger,” Cooper said.
“There is a lot of recommendations that came from the conference, specifically around increasing SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to support college kids. There was an effort to expand the National School Lunch Program to make it more universal so that kids, while learning, wouldn’t have access to nutrition, expand senior programs to increase senior nutrition, and really dial in with the Department of Defense...