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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Golden Harvest says they have called in both state and national resources to help assist them in their response.
On Thursday, Golden Harvest will host food drops beginning at 10 a.m. at the following locations: Hephzibah Baptist Church, 2527 Ga. Highway 88 and Thomson - Big Lots Parking Lot, 687 Main Street.
The Golden Harvest Food Bank and The Master’s Table will begin serving meals Thursday at 11 a.m. at 702 Fenwick Street across the street from the James Brown Arena.
They say that the organizations Feeding the Carolinas, Feeding Georgia and Feeding America have staff, food and water making their way to the area now.
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They also have other organizations coming to their aid.
Because their generators are broken, Atlanta Community Food Bank came to rescue their frozen products.
They say this is going to be a long recovery but right now, their main focus is getting people food and water.
Amy Breitmann is the CEO and president of Golden Harvest. She says this is a national-level crisis — one much bigger than Golden Harvest can handle.
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“Yesterday, we were able to get out one truckload of water. We focus on Richmond County, because obviously, water is out in that county, widespread. And so, we are going to be triaging today and figuring out where we can best direct our resources. We’ll be doing at least one food and water distribution today and then ramping up as we can,” said Breitmann.
Right now, Golden Harvest says what they need is volunteers.
This is also the first time they have had to close the soup kitchen downtown, but they are working to get that back open as quickly as they can.
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