United States: food crisis and New York solidarity
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The New York Food Bank is distributing turkeys, toys and more along with Tracy Morgan, Good + Foundation and Vanessa Gibson, to Bronx residents at Highbridge Houses on December 19, 2020 in Bronx, New York.
© Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City / AFP
By: Loubna Anaki Follow
4 min
While everyone waits for an aid plan to be validated, one in six Americans is hungry and unable to meet their needs.
Local authorities are overwhelmed.
In New York, half of the food banks have closed since the start of the epidemic.
Most were in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Today, it is simple citizen volunteers who are organizing themselves to face this food crisis.
Report in the Bronx.
United States
Poverty
Food
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