A group of current and former public health workers from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to gather in Decatur on Sunday for a volunteer event to help people experiencing food insecurity.
It’s part of a series of events called Compassion In Action: Saving The World One Sandwich At a Time that began last fall. Since then, volunteers have made and distributed hundreds of sandwiches and other care packages containing food, clothing and other items for distribution in metro Atlanta.
“Particularly in the context of rising unemployment rates and with housing instability on the rise, and earlier federal safety net programs like SNAP hanging in the balance, I think people really wanted to find a way to help and support each other, too,” says Coorganizer Sharoda Dasgupta, who helped launch the project in conjunction with the nonprofits Compassionate Atlanta and The Sandwich Project.
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