Focus: HOPE

Detroit’s Community Organizations Are Changing to Meet the Needs of Food Insecure Detroiters During the Pandemic | Eater Detroit

"After receiving a call from a 70-year-old Food for Seniors recipient who had COVID-19 and couldn’t leave her home, I learned how Focus: Hope pivoted quickly to meet urgent needs: the director of food programs recounted delivering food to the woman’s home where her asymptomatic 89-year-old mother stood on the porch and her 92-year-old husband needed assistance. Observing the risk to the roughly 41,000 low-income seniors its Food for Seniors program serves each month, the nonprofit shifted to contact-free options without shutting down—instituting curbside pickup and home delivery to reach seniors, homebound patients, pregnant mothers, and individuals with chronic health issues who couldn’t travel to mobile sites." - Eater