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The Rescue Operation Bridging a Food Access Gap in California
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Yes! Magazine
Posted: May 18th, 2020
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/04/29/corona...
By 11 a.m. on a Wednesday in Antioch, California, hundreds of cars are lined up at the Palabra de Dios Community Church. The cars fill the churchs ample parking lot and snake up the neighboring service street ... waiting for food. Most weekdays since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a box truck delivers groceries here: bags of fresh kale, lettuce, and radishes; boxes of apples, limes, and tomatoes; canned beans, pastas, and gallons and gallons of milk and juice. As volunteers from the church unload the truck, others quickly sort the food into single-family grocery boxes to put into each car. Our intention here is to provide food to those who truly need it, says Ruben Herrera, pastor of Palabra de Dios. Herrera and his congregation dont regularly operate a food drive out of the parking lot of their church, but for many churches, nonprofits, and social service providers, the COVID-19 crisis has prompted a rapid reconfiguration of resources and efforts to address the needs of their communities. The truckload of food comes from White Pony Express, a nonprofit aimed at alleviating hunger in Contra Costa County. Over the past six years, the staff members at White Pony Express have built and coordinated a growing food redistribution network, in which they rescue food with approaching sell-by dates from grocery stores, restaurants, and farmers markets, and redistribute that food to the countys low-income residents via food pantries, schools, and community centers.
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