Inefficient space, we're making it
happen, and we're doing that for
very dedicated volunteers
and a very devoted staff.
If you ever have concerns that
this amount of donations
won't come in, won't be
able to...
To be honest, yes, they did
have that concern, but to tell you
that the community has been amazing.
They have heard our pleas, they've
heard other people's pleas.
Please bring us money.
Please give us money, please get
food.
We need help, we need volunteers,
and the community is responded.
When you understood
clearly that
the SNAP funding was not
going to be in effect,
starting...
Well,
we have a little bit of time to
prepare for that, is what I truly
thought.
We'll look forward to it.
This was being very busy.
In fact, it started last week.
People were planning.
People heard the news.
People were apprehensive about what
was really going to happen.
Is it going to happened and we need
to plan for how do we deal with it?
So for
me, it was a,
maybe we've got a little bit of
extra time, but we really didn't,
so thanks to an amazing staff
and the volunteers that followed
along with us and said
we're here.
So even if
by court order, the SNAP
funding is
reinstated,
do you expect it to be convenient
where people will have that on their
EVs?
And also I think people are still
going to be apprehensive about
is it really true.
Plus I think that people have
followed us and now have also known
that we're welcoming, that we are
here for them.
And so I believe we'll
continue to see uptick in numbers
here. Plus we're coming into the
holidays, which is always a busy
time for us.
Thank you.
For your clients,
the people you serve, to
kind of be...
It's very confusing, I was
talking to some of the clients last
week and they said like, we're
scrambling but we don't know
what to
listen to, which side to listen.
And we're in the middle,
and who is also in
the middle are children, and that's
heart-breaking, that children
are going hungry, and maybe going
hungry because of the status that's
been cut.
What kind of
provisions do you have
to help the
students? I mean, like, I see
all of this food and food.
Over there I see people making
soup.
So tell me a little bit about...
So the river has different programs
and it's really a way to give
different access to different people
and help them get food.
So we do have a mobile
meal program where we go out into 24
different neighborhoods throughout
the week where we deliver any kind
of meal. We also have our most
religious and popular
program which is group site.
And that's really what
the volunteers here have been doing
for a few other bags for the new
streets that we've been on.
What we're seeing here is
produce, the most requested item.
Fresh produce.
You can open it over again from our
plane. Classes food isn't good
for their diet, but it's also
having access.