as businesses around the country close
to stem the spread of the corona virus
some organizations remain open like the
chips soup kitchen and women's shelter
in Brooklyn New York
normally this is where would we we would
be eating and serving we have a feeding
program normally we would have almost
200 people coming to sit down and eat a
hot lunch we give out around 300 or 350
meals a day on average six days a week
in light of the virus and we decided not
to close what we've decided instead was
to take the food that we have asking for
donations for sandwiches packing them up
and giving it out to people as they came
to the door as opposed to having them
come sit down inside I put a post on
Facebook asking for donations of
sandwich items Monday morning at 7
o'clock the doorbell rang it was the
post office and they came with boxes and
boxes and boxes of donations so here are
some more donations you can see these
Amazon boxes they're coming in by the
droves
so here's mayonnaise Mayo as we go
through the boxes will probably
fine-tune a jelly peanut butter utensil
classic utensils the other thing that's
been so nice and remarkable is we've
gotten so many calls and donations from
catering companies and restaurants that
had parties cancelled so they were ready
for a party of 700 and the next thing
you know it was canceled so they had
lots of food to give us and they did
the staff and volunteers at chips aren't
letting the coronavirus keep them from
providing food to those who need it
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we're here and we're gonna stay here and
we're going to keep giving away food
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