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struggle4progress

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10. Feeding 500 families a week (ME)

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Wed Nov 18, 2020, 08:48 AM

Nov 2020

Jim Keithley

... "We started off with 16 families. It went to 300 families and then with the pandemic it went right up to 500,” Swett said.

"We do not deny anybody because people are hungry. Children are hungry. One in five children in the state of Maine are hungry. It's mind-boggling,” volunteer coordinator Jane Riseman said ...

https://www.wmtw.com/article/food-pantry-in-small-maine-town-feeding-500-families-a-week/34703670

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