With inflation rising, a Tarrant County food bank's mission to fight hunger is being hit by high demand and surging prices.
His nonprofit relies heavily on volunteers, like Rich Stoller who joined in 2017 and also serves as a board member. His volunteer work includes visiting the agencies they serve and helping at the warehouse about seven or eight times a month, he said.
“I’m probably using 25 to 30 gallons a month to do my work with the Midwest Food Bank,” he said. “That’s gone from $120 to $200, maybe a little more than that.” Even with rising gas prices, he said he had no plans to stop volunteering any time soon. The organization has experienced a rise in demand lately, he said.
“It makes you really aware of how hard it’s got to be for people who live on the margin. [In the] year or two years in the way things have gone, it’s just got to be crunching them like crazy,” he said. “It makes the opportunity more meaningful.”described their volunteers as the “backbone” of their organization. On average, they serve about 6,400 people throughout Tarrant County with the help of about 5,200 volunteers who drive their own cars to make meal deliveries.
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