More than 50 Transwestern team members, including CFO Steve Harding, spent the morning of July 29 assisting the Greater Chicago Food Depository in repacking food and other materials for the nearly 812,000 individuals served by the depository’s network each year.
In just a couple of hours, the Transwestern team repacked 18,418 pounds of bulk sweet potatoes and carrots into individual boxes for distribution to GCFD clients and member agencies.
The need for the Depository’s services is especially great in the summer, when just 13 percent of the children who receive subsidized lunches during the school year have access to the district’s summer meals program. GCFD and its partners aim to fill that gap by providing free meals to children 18 and under at designated Kids Cafes and other distribution sites throughout the city.
