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Fort Long Community Center describes growing countywide food distribution as needs rise
Summary
The Fort Long Community Center told Chester County Council that its monthly countywide food distribution and partner sites served more than 2,100 households last year, and organizers warned that canceled meat shipments and cuts to food bank supplies will increase local pressure on pantries and volunteers.
Libby Sweat Lambert, executive director of the Fort Long Community Center, told Chester County Council the center and its partners served 2,141 households (about 6,108 individuals) last year through a network of seven distribution sites across the county.
Lambert said the program has expanded rapidly. The countywide distribution operates monthly at sites that include Mount Pleasant Baptist in Richburg, Turning Point in Chester,…
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