Donation to Salvation Army Food Shelf

The financial impact of this pandemic is leaving food shelves that were normally full...close to empty.

Before./// events are being cancelled left and right due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Now being put on hold... austin's salvation army food drive.

In a time where the organization needs more help than ever... kimt news 3's maleeha kamal is finding out there is still help coming in.xxx on the scene nats: "the need is out there we see the lines of people trying to get food."

The financial impact of this pandemic is leaving food shelves that were normally full... close to empty.

Major jeff strickler with the salvation army says the circumstances are making it hard for families to survive.

And those families are now depending on the salvation army to help feed their loved ones.

Major sot: "we are doing about 40 households per day.

Which is usually the max of what we would be operating at under normal circumstances .

But we are seeing new households come to us all the time.

The national association of letter carriers is one of the salvation army's biggest supporters.

For the last 28 years the two have teamed up to host the " stamp out hunger food drive" in austin.

It's the largest single day food drive in mower county... and last years event brought in eleven thousand pounds of food.

But the coronavirus pandemic is putting this year's drive on hold bob rosel sot: "so the letter carriers got together and thought what can we do."

The local chapter took money that would usually go toward dues and training... and instead handed over a ?thousand dollar check to the salvation army.

Which major strickler says will help feed hundreds of people in mower county... and take a huge burden off the salvation army's back.

Look live: i was told the food shelf is open 3 days a week.

The salvation major stickler is hoping that they'll be able to host the "stamp out hunger food drive" this fall.

In the meantime?

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