Rural food banks face new challenges amid pandemic - Entrepreneur Generations

Food banks across the nation are struggling to keep up with demand as unemployed families seek help during the pandemic. But rural food banks are dealing with "the additional challenges of getting food to those who live in isolated places with fewer volunteers and donations," Emily Ness reports for WDIO-TV in Duluth, Minn.

According to the director at Second Harvest North Central Food Bank in Duluth, food must be packed up and distribute food instead of allowing people to come in and take food from the shelf, in order to maintain social distancing. But that takes more volunteers, and volunteers tend to be senior citizens. However, because of the pandemic, their regular volunteers can't come in because of guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ness reports.

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