Statesboro families pick up groceries at food drop
Statesboro families pick up groceries at food drop By Dal Cannady | February 20, 2021 at 8:07 PM EST - Updated February 21 at 5:48 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - More than a thousand families got a helping hand in Statesboro today.
Volunteers directed people through traffic to load them up with food. The food drop was sponsored by Feed the Boro, the City of Statesboro, and Second Harvest Food Bank. People lined up to receive a supply of food that will feed an average family for one week. Cars lined up in the Statesboro High parking lot hours before the drop began. It also brings out people and groups to help.
The February installment of the city of Statesboro’s and Feed the Boro’s effort to provide free supplemental food to local families in need is scheduled for this Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. on the Statesboro High School campus.
Saturday before last, 836 vehicles drove through a line on the Statesboro High School campus and received 999 family-size boxes of nonperishable food items, plus some fresh produce, in a Feed the Boro free distribution funded by the city.
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