The holidays are just around the corner and food banks are trying to keep up with rising demand for food.
Krystine Dinh with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano said that donations are down. She added the need has been building in the community.
“The food bank is currently serving 275,000 residents between the two counties on average per month. That’s about 1 in 6 of our neighbors in need which an incredibly large number as we head into the holidays,” Dinh said. Before the pandemic, Dinh said the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano was serving about 178,000 people a month. Some faced job losses. Now it’s inflation and paying more for food and gas.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
“It’s really the perfect storm donations are down year over year by 20%, which is really troubling but maybe not surprising,” she said. “It is cash, it’s monetary donations, what people don’t know is that the individual donations take up about 70% of the donations that come into the food bank.”
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