Feeding San Diego held a special large-scale drive-through food distribution Tuesday to help families through the holiday season.
Feeding San Diego hosted another special holiday food distribution today, this time at Southwestern College. While we’ve seen many of these big events since the pandemic, KPBS Reporter Melissa Mae tells us that no one expected the need to go on so long.For almost two years, Feeding San Diego has been hosting large-scale drive-through food distributions, started to help families during the pandemic. They did not expect to see so much need continuing for so long.
“These were never really intended to be permanent. This was an emergency response for all the families that were struggling,” said Carissa Casares the senior communications manager for Feeding San Diego. “But because of inflation because of the rise of costs of nearly everything, we just aren’t seeing the lines go down.”And the lines were long at Wednesday's giveaway; eight lines of cars filing in to a parking lot at Southwestern College.
“It’s very emotional to see all of these cars here today. It’s not lost on our organization. It’s just been a really hard year. It’s been hard to see things not necessarily getting better for people,” Casares said. One person in line was Bonita resident Esperanza Vida, who said, “Sometimes we don’t have food, but with Feeding San Diego it’s been a blessing to come and get some.”“We’re very grateful because it helps a lot ... especially regarding Christmas,” Pamintuan said.Sixty-five volunteers helped make this food distribution run, including Marylu Ramirez, who has been a Feeding San Diego warehouse volunteer for the past nine years.
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