A volunteer packs food boxes at a contactless, drive-thru Mobile Market. Mobile Markets have become essential to our mission during the pandemic, and our volunteers help make them possible. More than a year ago, everything changed. Our Operations Team recruited the entire staff to pack hundreds of emergency food boxes. The next day, we held the Food Bank’s first drive-thru, no-contact Mobile Market. We had no idea that by the end of 2020, we would distribute more than 2.7 million meals this way -- or that a year later, it would still be the safest way to [...]

Betty, the food pantry director at BreakFree Augusta Ministries, shows off the organization’s new side-by-side refrigerator and freezer unit made possible by a Feeding America grant. The unit will help distribute more produce, milk, and meat. When the food pantry director at BreakFree Augusta Ministries heard she could get the pantry a new refrigerator/freezer unit -- for free -- she didn’t hesitate. “I jumped on it,” Betty says. “It doubled our freezer space.” About 40 families a month come through the tidy pantry tucked into the back of the church on North Leg Court in Augusta. The [...]

Wheels Up volunteers prepare food boxes at a Mobile Market in front of Golden Harvest’s Aiken Warehouse. They served 120 meals at The Master’s Table Soup Kitchen and provided 326 families with nutritious food at the Mobile Market in Aiken as part of a Day of Service. The line of cars that starts in front of Golden Harvest’s Aiken warehouse winds over a mile down side streets and out onto Banks Mill Road. Gail, a senior living in the Aiken area, pulls through the line as volunteers from private aviation company Wheels Up load food into her [...]

(l-r): Mary and Joanne wait in line at a Mobile Market food distribution provided by Unity Outreach Church in Gloverville, S.C. Since Mary’s recent surgery, medical costs have made it difficult to keep food on the table. The two attend the Mobile Market event every two weeks. Joanne and her mother, Mary, breathe the cool air drifting in through their car windows as they wait in line at the Unity Outreach Church Mobile Market distribution in Gloverville, S.C. “The food has been helping us a great deal,” Joanne says. “My mother has been in the hospital and [...]