During the holiday season, it's common to see an increase in the number of people who need food pantries to help get by.
Add on top of that the increasing need during the pandemic and it's forcing pantries to work harder than before to meet the need.
The number of people who need food in our area continues to grow as the covid-19 pandemic goes on, and for some food banke struggling to meet caleb ed.
Fox 55 saylor spoke with some local food banks today and is live in fort wayne.
Caleb... how are trying to meet the need.
Food pantries i spoke with today all say the same thing, the amount of people needing food is still growing because of the pandemic, so much so that one pantry i spoke with today sa want to idn be publicised in my story because they were afraid of having to turn away more people than they already do.
Pile on top of that the holiday season and you have a situation where food pantries are having to work harder than ever before to meet the need on what might be a limited supply?
3 he numbers are growing more people than at any other time this year are need of food.
Carmen cumberland with the community harvest food banke working as hard as they can to meet that growing need, seeing more first time people at their drive thru donations on saturdays and distributing food to more people who have lost their jobs.
Hese are people who hav donated to us in the past, so we e just trying to reciprocate and help them out during a hard time.
Is having unique impacts,diminishing their food suppe still they having a hard time getting anywhere else, especially now during the holidays when times get tough for more people.
So many people working from home that are worke not doing y the food drives, which we have gotten monetary donations, but agai not always available just ordering it from suppliers.
Need, community harvest partners with organizations like wellspring interfaith, which has a mobile food pantry.
Wellspring executive director melissa rinehart says their team of four delivers food two daye a week served over seventeen thousand individuals this year just through our mobile food pantry and by the end of the month, wel have distributed sixty thousand pounds of food.
Cumberland says the supply chain is improving but they have had to make tough decisions to help as many people as poe had to limit at times what they can get, just to make sure that all of our different ?so while these groups product- continue to serve the community, they still need the publ help and coming up at 10:30, you can find out how you can help both wellspring and the community harvest food bank.
Reporting live in fort wayne,
