By DJ 33 1/3
Apr 21, 2021
Food Rescue US is a non-profit that connects food donors like Trader Joe’s and other grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and event venues with shelters and soup kitchensand it’s done all through a website.
“What we do is rescue unsold, unused food and directly transfer it to the people who need it,” said Ellen Bowen, the site director for Food Rescue US in Miami.
The organization connects with a local volunteer to pick up and drop off the food directly.
“Forty percent of all food is wasted, yet one in five people go to bed hungry every single night,” Bowen said.
We want everyone healthy : Norwalk nonprofit shifts focus to deliver food to needy
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Monica Beltran, left, of The Family and Children s Agency, meets with Julissa Bautista and her son Alexis Alvarado after delivering a box of food in Norwalk, Conn. March 9, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORWALK The Family and Children’s Agency was not geared toward food distribution when COVID hit last year. Rather, the Norwalk-based organization focused more on programs to increase the social and emotional well-being of children and families.
But the FCA quickly shifted gears when coronavirus hit the area last March and many of their clients were left hungry.