UNDATED – COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, is challenging everyday life across the state — including the ability to feed the hungry in South Dakota.
Feeding South Dakota is continuing to fight the hunger needs in the state, despite eleven reported cases to this point of the virus.
Organization CEO Matt Gassen said Feeding South Dakota will continue to deliver food to those in need, however, they’re changing the way in which people receive the food.
“We’re going to do be doing a little bit more of drive by or drive thru distribution where we then limit the social interaction between multiple people so that it’s just a box being either handed to an individual or put in an individual’s car, or only an individual comes by to pick a box off a pallet to take home with them, so we can maintain those distances,” said Gassen.
Gassen said internally they’re faced with a challenge of having a high number of volunteers. Typically, that’s a good thing – but with group sizes being recommended to NOT eclipse even ten people, Feeding South Dakota is trying to revamp how they box up the food.
Gassen said this may mean having two serving lines, instead of one, on two different ends of the warehouse, as to ensure there’s substantial distance between the small working groups.
