LEBANON, Va. (WJHL) — A local food bank partnered with Food Lion Feeds and Russell County Emergency Management to distribute hundreds of boxes of food.
On Thursday, Feeding Southwest Virginia worked with Food Lion and the EMA to feed hundreds of families at the Lebanon, Virginia government center. Roughly 600 food boxes and bags of fresh produce were distributed.
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Pamela Irvine, the president and CEO of Feeding Southwest Virginia, told News Channel 11 there is no shortage of food insecure people in the region.
“Food insecurity numbers are as high as what they were down here in 2008,” Irvine said. “I mean, we have several counties down here in Southwest Virginia [where] food insecurity is 20% and higher. And so we know how challenged [the area is] economically, but also with disasters recently here in Russell County, Lebanon and Southwest Virginia, people are suffering.”…