A family in Northern Virginia saw how people needed help providing food for their loved ones, so they decided to do something about it.
Amber and Sterling Marchand and their four children started collecting food, donated by their neighbors to help those in need, contacting nonprofits to help distribute the collected items, “Good Morning America” reported.
Then they started making sandwiches when one group, Martha’s Table, needed 250 more sandwiches than what they had available each day.
They spread the word about the shortfall on Facebook, and the Marchand home became the center of the sandwich-making endeavor.
By December, they had made 30,000 sandwiches, The Hill reported last year. They also provided care packages and food for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
They still thought they could do more, so they created the Be The Good Project in July to buy food in bulk. They also built “Free Little Food Pantries,” ABC News reported.
The food pantries are similar to the “Little Free Library” movement where someone will build a small box, normally with a door where people can leave or borrow books.
In this case, books are replaced with food alongside the message “Take what you need and leave what you can.”
The “Little Free Food Pantry” helps fill the void that some people have when they can’t get to a traditional food pantry. These little outdoor boxes are open 24/7 and outside, in the communities they serve, “Good Morning America” reported.
The Marchands are not the only ones helping out their communities one pantry at a time.
Maya Pounds of Roswell, Georgia, and her husband set up a “Little Free Pantry” at their driveway to help the homeless and hungry, WSB reported.
Pounds refills the cabinet twice a day and says that the pantry will remain at the end of her driveway well after the pandemic is over.
“It literally hurts my heart to see people struggle. I do see that a lot in this world and right here in my community. So, if I can do just one little thing to help in my little area, it can spread like wildfire. You have to meet people where they’re at,” Pounds told WSB.
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