It is another busy day at the Feeding the Gulf Coast warehouse in Theodore as they work to get the food they do have where it is needed most.
“As we approach summer and hurricane season what we know is that right now our supply of food is low. So we are really struggling to meet the increasing demand that we’re still seeing since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Cyndy Baggett with Feeding the Gulf Coast.
“When you look around the warehouse it looks like there’s a lot of food, but of course we want food to coming in and going out just so we are meeting the need for the 1 in 6 individuals, including 1 in 4 children right here in our community who face food insecurity,” Baggett said. “On that particular day we usually hope to receive 100,000 pounds of food,” Baggett said. “It’s so easy for people in the community to get involved. They’ll receive a bag in their mailbox from the postal carrier and they’ll just fill that bag with whatever items they purchased or might have in their pantry that they’d like to donate.”
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