Under Secretary McKinney and Congressman Banks visit Community Harvest Food Bank

It's been a challenging year for community harvest food bank trying to serve all of their counties during the pandemic.fox 55's jentill neal tells us how the food box distribution is serving thousands despite the hardships.

This year has been a challenging one for the community harvest food bank.so far they've served more than one hundred twelve thousand residents.today u.s. under secretary ted mckinney and congressman jim banks toured the food bank to see how government funding is helping.

Once the state shutdown and covid cases increased- the volunteer numbers went down.

That's when the national guard stepped in to distribute food.

Since the reopening.> 00:00:18-00:00:30"i'm told people show up as early as 3 hours prior for the distribution time.

It's a powerful statement about how critical these free food products are for them."

President carmen cumberland says they give out thousands of boxes weekly.

They've handed out more than 36 thousand boxes since may 21st.> 00:03:47-00:04:01"doing these drive-thru distributions which we've never done before and packing boxes.

We're packing an upwards of 35 hundred boxes a week just to meet our mobile distribution."

Cumberland says volunteers are slowly coming back so they're welcoming anyone who wants to volunteer to sign up.in fort wayne, jentill neal fox 55 news 3