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When schools dismiss for the summer, many students lose their connection to a constant, reliable food source.
The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation has awarded the Southeast Food Bank with $50,000 in order to provide meals to children without access over the summer break.
A series of mobile food distribution centers at locations like schools, library’s, churches, and parks will provide over 200 children and their families with healthy boxes of food.
Distributions of food will be held at the sites throughout the months of summer, providing more than 30 pounds of food to families every month.
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Southeastern Food Bank is looking for individuals to deliver food boxes to families in need through its Food For Families program. Drivers are needed starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 13, at West Orlando Baptist Church, 1006 E. Crown Point Road, Ocoee.
Registration is not necessary; drivers can just show up to pick up the boxes. For information, call (407) 654-7777.
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On Tuesdays and Thursdays, His Compassion Food Bank isn’t hard to find. Just look for the line of cars parked adjacent to northeast Jacksonville Road.
The line often stretches up to three-quarters of a mile back toward County Road 326 as people wait in the outreach’s food distribution drive-through car line.
In 2020, His Compassion volunteers took in and then distributed over 13 million pounds of food in the drive-throughs and also provided bulk amounts of food for 82 local community agencies and churches. Food bank officials say this year is starting off with increased need spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are seeing people come through our car line for the first time needing food because they lost their job. The need for nutritious food especially for children has also increased greatly in the remote areas of the county, said Les Bowen, secretary- treasurer for His Compassion.