Pandemic provokes spike in demand for food pantries in US
Brooklyn Dotson needed food. Her first unemployment check had yet to arrive after she was let go by the warehouse where she used to work.
So the 25-year-old Nashville woman scrounged up some gas money and drove 30 miles (48 kilometers) to the GraceWorks Ministries food pantry in Franklin. There, at the pantry's new drive-thru, workers wearing masks and gloves loaded her van with about $350 worth of groceries.
"I don't have any income coming in, I don't get any food stamps, so it's just hard to get any help right now," Dotson said while waiting in line at GraceWorks.
