By The Annie E. Casey Founation, November 2, 2020
Over the past several months, thousands of Atlantans have found themselves struggling to afford groceries after the COVID-19 pandemic put them out of work. At the same time, many churches, food pantries and relief organizations have faced difficulties keeping up with requests for food and have seen a dip in volunteers — as many people have stayed home to avoid potential exposure to the novel coronavirus.
The Atlanta-based humanitarian organization, CARE, has worked to help address each of these issues. Since April, the nonprofit has partnered with community organizations, the Atlanta school system and tech companies such as TaskRabbit to provide groceries to those in need and connect Atlanta-area residents to jobs supporting food-relief efforts. Those jobs have included tasks like picking up groceries from supermarkets for food pantries; packing and sorting items; and delivering food packages to residents’ homes.
So far, CARE and its partners have purchased and provided roughly 450,000 meals to Atlanta-area residents who were impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, and some $250,000 in income has been generated for local people assisting the relief efforts.
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