Second Harvest works to meet demand (4-29-20)

Second Harvest works to meet demand (4-29-20)

Big dent in the amount of food people are donating to area food banks.

In fact, second harvest says donations are only about half compared to last year.

What makes that worse they say is that while they're dealing with half the food they're also trying to meet almost double the demandkq2's kilee thomas explains this 5,000 lbs of donated pork from triumphof a rarity"just looking at april compared to last year just what we received on site, has been about half as much as it was this time last year."

Second harvest says they're down 250,000 lbs of do nations this month compared this time last year forcing them to reach into their wallets and food reserves "typically, a truck load could run from $25,000-30,000 and some of that we're seeing with an increase in prices from what it would've been a few months ago."

Food banks say they expect to use up all of their reserve"before all this hit, we had about eight months and now we're done closer to six months of operating."

Food banks are now feeding more people than ever before while facing a drastic decrease in donations "we're seeing about a 40-50% increase in families served, some of those are higher.

We're seeing where they're almost serving twice as much as they had been just a few months ago."

The crossing says they're serving 15-20% more families tooas donations become more scarce and the demand for food assistance is at an all time high, second harvest says they're doing their best to prepare for the long haul.

Reporting in st.

Joseph, kilee thomas, kq2 news second harvest says they're now serving double the amount of families at their mobile distribution sites.going from 350 families to 800.

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