Boys and Girls Club of Geneva will become full-time Foodlink partner in 2021
Chris Lavin says hunger during the coronavirus pandemic has been a ‘private crisis’. There were temporary job losses, permanent ones, and a reduction in hours for those who worked in the service industry. It led to a private crisis that he says played out over-and-over in neighborhoods around Geneva and the Finger Lakes region.
He’s the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva, and one of the biggest ways that organization has stepped up in 2020 has been by feeding families. Lavin says the loss of jobs and layoffs that occurred at the start of the pandemic had an ‘immediate effect’ on families across the city and region. It caused an almost-immediate increase in demand for food. Those who lost jobs, or relied on secondary income to keep refrigerators stocked were left with few options when the unemployment system and CARES Act left large gaps.
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Chris Lavin says hunger during the coronavirus pandemic has been a ‘private crisis’. There were temporary job losses, permanent ones, and a reduction in hours for those who worked in the service industry. It led to a private crisis that he says . MORE
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