Food bank invites local leaders to collaborate to help fight hunger

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Golden Harvest’s warehouse serves 25 counties. Throughout these counties, they serve over 11 million meals with virtually 300,000 households fed.

The aim is to get rid of starvation, and even with all of the meals, they’re nonetheless seeing gaps within the communities they serve.

Knowledge from Feeding America says that one in eight of their service space remains to be meals insecure. Thursday was about discovering the answer to the issue of starvation and meals insecurity in our space.

“There was type of a plateau after the pandemic. However I feel now, with the costs of issues, we’re actually seeing a rise throughout our 25 counties,” mentioned Amy Breitman, president, and CEO of Golden Harvest Meals Financial institution.

Which features a spike in these occurring their web site trying to find meals close to them.

Commissioner Jordan Johnson mentioned: “This concern has tapped everybody on the shoulder a minimum of as soon as in our lives. The meals banks or whether or not they simply needed to scrape the cash to afford meals. The difficulty right here is simply this concern round poverty and homelessness.”

Across the space, the Salvation Military has re-vamped, handing out bus passes for Augusta Transit. These might be picked up on the Kroc Middle.

Golden Harvest is taking part within the Stamp Out Starvation meals drive on Could 13, the place the publish workplace shall be dropping off empty baggage for these to fill with meals and ship again.

Totally different organizations and occasions look to place the precise foot ahead to battle starvation and homelessness.

Georgia State Senator Harold Jones mentioned: “One of many belongings you stroll away from is the fervour that everyone has. All people’s very captivated with this. The opposite factor you stroll away from is the complexity of the problem.”

With this advanced concern, these in attendance know the answer takes time. Within the coming weeks, Golden Harvest and native leaders are eager to have a cellphone name to proceed what was mentioned Thursday.

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