Eden Armendariz mentioned her freezers are too empty to assist households throughout the winter months.
DENVER — Operating a meals financial institution within the basement of a Denver church, Eden Armendariz has to resolve totally different issues day by day.
“I see loads occurring, yeah,” Armendariz mentioned.
She has been government director of the Josie M. Bedford Meals Pantry at Redeeming Love Fellowship Church in Denver for 20 years.
“It has been a problem,” she mentioned. “I am coming into obstacles and going through obstacles that I by no means thought I’d ever see, and I’m seeing it right now.”
She mentioned she believes provide chain issues and the nationwide employee scarcity are inflicting a discount in meals provide. When she reaches out to organizations in her seek for meals, she mentioned solely about half the conventional stock is obtainable.
“I’m very apprehensive,” she mentioned. “Right now, I ought to have each fridge, each freezer ought to be full. We’re on the brink of feed roughly anyplace from 700 to a thousand households, and my freezers are empty.”
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Margaret Siletto is a shopper and volunteer on the meals financial institution.
“I am getting scared myself as a result of I’ve 4 adopted kids. They’re my organic grandkids, and so they dwell with me,” Siletto mentioned. “I get one examine, and I am serving eight folks in my home.”
Armendariz mentioned she spends hours on the cellphone day by day.
“I am attempting to wheel and deal meals, perceive the place is the meals, how way more can I’ve? What product has been acquired,” she mentioned.
With chilly climate approaching, Siletto mentioned extra households are in want and counting on this meals financial institution.
“With out this kitchen, I do not assume lots of people round right here would make it,” she mentioned.
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“If I’ve ever seen a 12 months that we have to come collectively as a complete, that is the 12 months to come back collectively,” Armendariz mentioned.
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