Feed The Fight | THE VIRAL Journal, Part 14
By Steve Coonan
Health care workers, exhausted from pulling long shifts, have little time to eat a good meal. Many people have launched crowdfunding campaigns to support meal deliveries to various hospitals. Others have launched food delivery by other creative methods:
An Atlanta 16-year-old created a charity connecting restaurants and hospital workers. The Meal Bridge allows individuals to purchase meals from local restaurants for donation to hospital workers. In just three days of active service, the Meal Bridge has provided enough meals to serve about 60 individual hospital workers at Emory University Hospital.
Louisiana State Police teamed delivers hundreds of meals to four major hospitals in Southwest Louisiana. State troopers packed a total of 400 meals from Southern Spice restaurant to deliver to emergency rooms at West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital, Lake Charles Memorial Health System, St. Patrick Hospital and Lake Area Hospital.
A Washington D.C. woman has started a charity called "Feed The Fight" to support local restaurants and frontline healthcare workers, two groups most impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. "We are completely community-funded," said founder Elena Tompkins. We use the money to purchase meals from our local restaurants and deliver them to our local hospitals." She started with one email and to date and has purchased over 4,000 meals! A12 year old boy received a $100 birthday check from his grandmother. He donated it to Feed the Fight.
A couple cool stories: Operation BBQ Relief is doing its part on the coronavirus front lines feeding the hungry. The Kansas City-area charity usually mobilizes with hot meals after natural disasters; these days it is feeding COVID-19 first responders and the local homeless as well as employing restaurant workers suddenly left jobless.
Give your all,
Steve
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