GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Many families across Michigan are without jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. West Michigan food banks say the demand for food has drastically increased.
Kids Food Basket has more than 70 distribution sites in Muskegon, Allegan, Kent and Ottawa counties. In the last week, the charity says some of their distribution sites have requested six times more food daily.
“This has been my career for 18 years and I feel right now more committed and like we’re more needed than we have ever been before,” Bridget Clark Whitney, the founding CEO of Kids Food Basket, said.
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