United Airlines employees are pitching in to help the Houston Food Bank.
Mark Zessin specializes in making sure luggage gets where it needs to go. When the coronavirus hit, he turned that talent into helping to feed those left unemployed in Houston.
It all happened because of a local TV news report Zessin saw late last month that mentioned the food bank needed volunteers. He called them."What do you really need?" he said he asked. The answer wasn't volunteers to hand out food, but rather an operation that could organize bulk donations into individual portions, enough food to last a family up to a week.
Inside the cavernous cargo facility, Zessin set up four assembly lines. Pallets and crates arrive heaped with canned soup, chili or meat and produce like melons, carrots, beets, onions, oranges and more. It all gets packaged into the food bank's"disaster boxes" or repackaged onto other pallets to be taken to institutional kitchens for feeding the needy.
He said he appreciated United's"out-of-the-blue offer" that solved the hardest part of ramping up in the face of a crisis: lining up everything to be handed out.
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