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Supply chain issues bring loss in food donations to MANNA
MACKENSY LUNSFORD, Asheville Citizen Times
May 8, 2021
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1of11A MANNA FoodBank driver waves as they depart from the warehouse on Swannanoa River Road in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. (Angela Wilhelm /The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)Angela Wilhelm/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11MANNA FoodBank CEO Hanna Randall is photographed at the nonprofit s warehouse on Swannanoa River Road in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. (Angela Wilhelm /The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)Angela Wilhelm/APShow MoreShow Less
ASHEVILLE - As the COVID-19 pandemic bore down, MANNA FoodBank CEO Hannah Randall saw firsthand a sharp rise in food insecurity, and it hasn t relented.
The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. For us, throughout this pandemic, we just pulled out all the stops all the time, looking for every resource we could find to make sure people had a meal at home, she said.
Now, more than a year later, the numbers have shown no signs of declining. Complicating the work to get needed food assistance to hundreds of thousands of regional clients is a supply chain that seems reluctant to stabilize.
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The 19-year-old is in her third trimester of her IT diploma at Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) and hopes to soon sink her teeth into the gaming industry - a male-dominated world in which she has long yearned to make her mark.
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