Name: Claire Babineaux-Fontenot - Feeding America During COVID-19 | The Daily Social Distancing Show
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T16:21:29.000Z
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Claire, welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.

To-infinitive

but so pleased that you gave us an opportunity

Oh, I-I'll be honest, I feel like the opportunity is ours,

some of the material about Feeding America,

Tell us a little bit about Feeding America and what you do.

So we're a network of 200 food banks around the United States.

um, in normal times, with two million volunteers.

And we distribute over four billion meals

um, there's been a really serious food crisis

and that crisis has only been made worse because of it.

Is there a misconception around who needs food

the vast majority of the increase that we're seeing

I mean, the Federal Reserve Bank has estimated

which a lot of people are experiencing right now.

sometimes just, uh, completely unexpected things happen

and our network tries hard to make certain

could find ourselves in the exact same position one day.

with-with dignity and respect that they deserve.

You talk about feeding 40 million before coronavirus,

the number jumping up by as many as 17 million

diminishing across the country and even across the world

as global supply chains start to break down.

Are you managing with this? Are you coping?

in getting food to the people who need it?

And we're also working with the government as well,

the Department of Agriculture, where we're-we're getting close,

where we really just turn this whole distribution system

on its ear and address the here and now challenges

because I don't know that our biggest issue

for delivering food in this new environment.

And we're working hard to connect those dots

so that we can be much better positioned,

uh, to use the excess that exists in certain places

and fill in the gaps that clearly exist in others.

There may be some people watching this right now,

"but I don't know if I can contribute $100

I'd say to them that we value one dollar,

which we established, and you can go to FeedingAmerica.org

If you have the ability to donate, then do.

some people simply can't do that right now.

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Claire Babineaux-Fontenot - Feeding America During COVID-19 | The Daily Social Distancing Show

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