This former bartender and his team of volunteers are making sure struggling restaurant workers in North Carolina have the meals and household items they need during the pandemic
When restaurants across the country closed amid the Covid-19 crisis, thousands of service industry workers suddenly lost their jobs.
As many of them found themselves struggling to make ends meet, 2009 CNN Hero Doc Hendley, a former bartender, wanted to do something to help."It was devastating for the service industry community ... People were scrounging, trying to file for unemployment, trying to figure out how are they going to make their rent payment," said Hendley, whose nonprofit, Wine to Water, provides clean water and sanitation to communities around the world.
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