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Amazon donates $25,000 to the Kids’ Food Basket to support Grand Rapids community
Amazon has donated $25,000 to the Kids’ Food Basket to support Grand Rapids children in need this holiday season.
Credit: Amazon (Brittney Popa) Published: 1:28 PM EST December 21, 2020 Updated: 1:28 PM EST December 21, 2020
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan The Kids’ Food Basket received a $25,000 donation from Amazon on behalf of the company’s 1,500 associates working at the Gaines Township fulfillment center.
Prior to the pandemic in 2019, there were more than 90,000 children in West Michigan receiving free and reduced cost school lunch each weekday. That is 46.6% of all children in Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa and Allegan counties (the four counties that Kids’ Food Basket services with healthy evening meals). As a result of COVID-19’s economic impacts, food insecurity is expected to affect many Americans as the nation recovers from all facets of the pandemic.