FAIRBURN, Ga. - An urgent outreach effort to help families in need took place Saturday morning. Several organizations gathered for a drive thru-food giveaway.
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Labor of Love feeds hundreds of families
The Metro Area Labor Council hosted a food giveaway for hundreds of jobless union members.
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"On a monthly basis before coronavirus we were serving 600 families in our communities," says Margie Boone, the founder of Margie's House, a local nonprofit which has a food pantry. "Of course, the numbers have grown every week and we've gone to weekly distribution as opposed to monthly distribution."
The effort was targeted to metro-area union workers who are feeling the effects of a the work stoppage that followed the state's shelter-in-place order.
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The Labor of Love food giveaway helped more than 300 families.
Learn more about Margie's House and its ongoing efforts by visiting its website.
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