Fork lift operator Mark Edwards stacks boxes of food at Feeding America Food Bank of Riverside/San Bernardino Counties. Photo by Michel Nolan
Each month, 425,000 hungry people rely on the Feeding America Riverside/San Bernardino Counties food bank to make ends meet.
That’s a really big number, Stuart Haniff will tell you.
“But there are 800,000-plus people in need in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, and we only have the resources to feed about half of those people,” said Haniff, the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer.
According to Haniff, the Riverside-based food bank distributes 2.5 million pounds of food every month. In 2015, he estimates food distribution reached 30 million pounds.
And at the heart of this huge program?
Volunteers.
They are an essential part — actually the heart — of the food bank, helping to move food to the 425,000 men, women and children in need throughout the Inland Empire.
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