A record 6,000 families preregistered for emergency food distribution at the San Antonio Food Bank last week. When word got out on social media, 4,000 more cars showed up.
Last week, they knew they'd be busy. A record 6,000 families had preregistered for food distribution at a flea market parking lot. When word got out on social media, 4,000 more cars showed up.
Cooper estimates half of the people coming to the food bank these days are first-timers. They are mothers like Erica Campos, a 42-year-old bank employee with two young daughters at home. "I never, ever could have even imagined anything like this," she said. Campos drives a nice car and wears stylish eyeglasses over her facemask.
With other natural disasters, you might expect to see regional hardship and strained food banks, but the economic cataclysm that has followed coronavirus has spread out the suffering around the globe.
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