London Food Bank turns to business community to help support local agencies
Some 21,000 people a month are coming to the food bank for help, Pearson says. The agency’s busiest three months ever occurred in the second half of this year.Pivot Airlines crew detained in Dominican Republic for 220 days ‘will soon return home’: CEO
“We don’t charge for that food, we give it out free to people because it was given to us free. But the reality is, is that their demands are really going up as well,” he said.“Although we feel the climb for us, the climb is steep for the others as well, and somehow we have to be able to meet both of those things, not just our own concerns.”
The food bank, he added, needs to ease the financial pressures not just on the agencies it helps, but also on those who donate. “If we keep coming to donors all the time with these needs, at some point they’re not going to be able to handle it all.”Pearson wouldn’t specify which partners the food bank is working with, noting that some negotiations are still ongoing.Story continues below advertisement
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