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Then, the pandemic hit.
“We went from about 17 families to now today we’re helping a little over 650 families by providing food every other two weeks that typically lasts between 10 to 14 days,” Leblois said.
Now the DC Food Project partners with multiple nonprofits and volunteers to bring food to families at eight D.C. public schools. The families are identified by the schools and school staff hand out the food.
At Bruce Monroe Elementary, families got in line well before the trucks even showed up.
“We had one mom who said to us that she was eating oodles of noodles for two weeks. A family of five, three of them being boys. And not like a pack per day per child, but like one pack for the whole family. So when she saw this food, she just broke down in tears. This is what they do,” Figueroa-Clark said.