LAKEWOOD (CBSLA) – The Los Angeles Regional Meals Financial institution is working to extend its capability to handle the rising meals insecurity drawback going through hundreds of Angelenos.
A LA Regional Meals Financial institution gross sales occasion in Lakewood, Calif., Might 19, 2021. (CBSLA)
The non-profit group is presently within the strategy of constructing a brand new 256,000 sq. meter facility within the Metropolis of Trade. So far, greater than $ 110 million has been raised on the undertaking.
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The undertaking contains rising cooling capability, including a volunteer middle and offering extra sources to greater than 700 companions.
On Wednesday, meals financial institution volunteers handed out containers of groceries to households in Lakewood.
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Michael Flood, CEO of the meals financial institution, admits that whereas demand has declined because the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, its present ranges are nonetheless a lot increased than they have been earlier than the pandemic started in March 2020.
“Now we have a really excessive native unemployment fee,” Flood instructed CBSLA. “Plenty of persons are digging up economically from final yr. So we nonetheless see robust participation in such distributions. “
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