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How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic
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YES! Magazine - Health & Happiness
Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.
Neighborhood sharing tables that went up just before the governor’s order have expanded; some have been converted into sharing sheds and some have adjacent refrigerators.
Local fundraising efforts to help South Park residents pay their bills and stay in their homes have also grown, along with the need, says Lashanna Williams, an active South Park resident.
Neighborhood residents who came for the weekly hot meals were given boxes of produce or dairy supplied by Food Lifeline, a Seattle food bank supplier.
Williams, who is a death doula and massage therapist, says South Park residents have had a mixed response to the shutdown.
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