Food banks seek hygiene supplies amid Washington coronavirus outbreak
As far as food goes, Northwest Harvest's SODO Community Market has been at its normal levels.
But the nonprofit, which runs a statewide network of food banks, hopes that donors can expand their gifts to include hygiene items such as hand sanitizer to help protect families in need amid the local outbreak of COVID-19.
"We want to make sure that people who experience hunger and experience low-income have the same types of things that other people in society are buying for themselves," Northwest Harvest CEO Thomas Reynolds told KING 5.
Reynolds said that the food bank has seen an increased need for its services as school districts have canceled in-person classes to try to slow the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
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