Volunteers with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank were spending Martin Luther King Jr. Day serving communities that need a helping hand.Watch the video above.It s part of the food bank s Food Justice is Social Justice initiative.Beth Burrell, who works for the food bank, said, Our community has made so much growth and improvement in equality over the years, but there s still so much work to be done and all of the volunteers who are here today are here today in recognition of that. Many of the volunteers at the warehouse in Duquesne are from organizations that work to promote equality.Sumedha Nagpal represents the Hindu Jain Temple and said, To best help everyone, you have to do it hands-on, you have to be there to help everyone. A dozen volunteers came from the Hindu Jain Temple. The Indian community comes from a country where we have seen a lot of poverty and hunger, and in our culture and our scriptures it is very big to come out and help other people and it is onl
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Members of the Hindu Jain Temple present a check to Amber Deemer, community fundraising coordinator at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
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The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is hosting a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day focused on Food Justice is Social Justice.
The food bank is welcoming 30 volunteers at its warehouse in Duquesne on Monday to prepare food for distribution across its 11-county service area. The event is open only to pre-registered volunteers.
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In 1982, Gail Robbins was a social worker in need of a job, when a friend and former co-worker suggested she seek work part-time at Pittsburgh’s fledgling community food bank.
The food bank had opened not long before in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, in part in response to southwestern Pennsylvania’s declining economy, but also with the goal of salvaging food that was going to waste.
A driver with St. Joseph House of Hospitality.
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“Part of it was an effort to recover some food that was still edible but maybe wasn’t as pretty as people would want it to be or there were reasons that manufacturers would need to dispose of it or felt that they needed to dispose of it but.it was still edible, you know some marketing snafus and things like that,” Robbins recalled.
Come spring, the Beaver County farm will be idle for the first time since he first turned the soil there in the spring of 1979. Don Kretschmann, 71, is retiring after failing to find someone to take over his 80-acre operation.