Food pantries feel the pinch
Michelle Moore is a single mom on a mission to feed her family. She travels around the borough from her Flushing home, going from one food pantry to another so that her son and father don’t go hungry.
“You have to come prepared to wait outside in the bad weather,”Moore said, standing next to her shopping cart she had lined with a large garbage bag.
On Monday, she was at the Kehilat Sephardim of Ahavat Achim, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue on 78th Road in Kew Gardens Hills. Moore stops by every Monday for some groceries, whose amount is determined by the size of her family. This time she got turkey lunch meat, cold cereal, apple juice, peanut butter, fresh potatoes, canned vegetables and more.
Moore is among a growing number of Queens residents who find it necessary to visit food pantries on a regular basis due to the recession and continuing rise in unemployment, according to a recent study conducted by the Food Bank for New York City
“You have to come prepared to wait outside in the bad weather,”Moore said, standing next to her shopping cart she had lined with a large garbage bag.
On Monday, she was at the Kehilat Sephardim of Ahavat Achim, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue on 78th Road in Kew Gardens Hills. Moore stops by every Monday for some groceries, whose amount is determined by the size of her family. This time she got turkey lunch meat, cold cereal, apple juice, peanut butter, fresh potatoes, canned vegetables and more.
Moore is among a growing number of Queens residents who find it necessary to visit food pantries on a regular basis due to the recession and continuing rise in unemployment, according to a recent study conducted by the Food Bank for New York City
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