In Bedford, Massachusetts, the whirring arms studded with suction cups pick, sort and pack such Thanksgiving staples as potatoes and stuffing. “A lot of the people that help in food banks are typically retirees or volunteers in that age group,” he said. About 3,000 boxes, with four meals each, go to City Harvest in New York and 1,000 boxes to the Boston food bank, feeding 16,000 people on the Nov. 26 holiday. Before the pandemic, the Greater Boston Food Bank, New England’s largest hunger-relief organization, was feeding about 300,000 in a city with a population of 710,000, according to WorldPopulationReview.com. “We’re seeing a lot of new families, children, people that look like you and I, with the amount of people that are out of work,” said Racine Droz, director of donor relations at City Harvest.

Source: Hindustan Times November 20, 2020 11:33 UTC