Agricultural crops lost in the new Corona, provided free of charge to unemployed people, etc. NY City May 9, 10:29
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, a private support activity is being carried out in New York City to take over the crops of farmers who have lost their sales channels and provide them to residents who are in need of food free of charge. It is planned to buy it and distribute it to food banks, and it seems that the movement to support residents will spread.
New York State in the eastern United States, where the infection with the new coronavirus is the most serious, announced on the 8th that 216 people died the day before and unemployment insurance claims numbered 1.6 million in seven weeks.
A church in Brooklyn, New York City has set up a tent that provides free bags filled with agricultural products such as carrots and lettuce for residents who are in need of food due to unemployment or absences. I handed it to the visitors.
A man from a family of five who received the food said, "I can't afford to rent because I don't have a job. I have two children, so I can help with the food."
Richard Slaizesky, a charity in the city that sponsored the activity, said, "We collected vegetables that had to be discarded because the restaurant closed for business and prepared about 20,000 meals for 1700 people." I will continue to work in the future.
In New York, the state government will buy farmers' crops from next week and distribute them to 50 food banks in the state, and it is likely that the government and the private sector will spread the movement to support the people who are forced to live a difficult life.