08/20/2019
It is this marker of rural poverty—lack of or limited transportation—that led George Wood, the district’s superintendent, to conceive of the food bus model three years ago. Food pantries serve as a lifeline to many of the families. But they haven’t always been easy to access. “Many people don’t have working cars and there’s no mass transit here,” says Wood.
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