After food is donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank, it is then distributed into the community. It takes a lot of people and coordinating to get the food to the people in need.
Greg Hall, the CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank explained, “We really are in the food logistics business, so it’s really important that we start at the very beginning with the farmer or the food manufacturer and then it comes and then we partner with food pantries, soup kitchens, other organizations, where the food then gets loaded on a truck and gets delivered to a local food pantry.”
Erie News Now decided to follow the food from getting donated to distributed. We start in the warehouse of Second Harvest Food Bank, where all the food is packed and sorted. Palettes of food is then loaded on a truck where a driver will take the food to one of the eleven counties that the food bank serves.
According to Hall, I don’t think people realize how big our service are is, we serve eleven counties in Northwest Pennsylvania and we have a lot of very passionate long term drivers who get up early in the morning, load their truck and maybe do a three hour journey one way, so six hours total, like counties like clarion and others and it’s all driven by passion and they want to deliver this food to our neighbors in need.”…