The food bank, which serves Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties, has outgrown its current facilities and is moving into the former Kinco Windows factory building on Old Kings Road in Jacksonville.
Those meals served more than 85,000 people in our News4JAX viewing area every day.
“There was a 40 million meal deficit identified by Feeding America in our community prior to COVID-19,” said Susan King, the president and CEO of Feeding Northeast Florida. “We have all seen the effects of COVID-19 and then the subsequent impacts of inflationary pressures that families are seeing.” “Life will be breathed back into [the new building] over the next few weeks,” she said. “We should see a lot of activity then.”A drawing of the new Feeding Northeast Florida Buildng on Old Kings Road.All 60 workers will be back together in one place, and the number of volunteers the agency can accept could double.
There will also be space for training sessions for the food bank or any of the other 325 groups it works with.
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