It’s a little before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and a line of cars is stretching out of the Urban Mission pantry’s parking lot into the street on Portland Avenue in Oklahoma City.
Executive director German Garcia directs the flow of traffic.
“We’re a drive-thru system, but we put the baskets together in real time. We package some of the dry goods together ahead of time, but someone’s putting in meat, someone’s putting in breads, dairy items and stuff like that as we have an assembly line that goes through here, the cars go to the back and we load it into their car,” Garcia said.
Garcia said each day the pantry is open, the boxes of food given to each car end up feeding 250 households. Of those, about 20 are households of Afghan refugees.
Until recently, the pantry partnered with organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Catholic Charities to put together boxes of halal food for volunteers to deliver to Afghan refugee households.
Source : PR
