United Food Bank delivers more than 62,000 pounds of food to White Mountain Apache Tribe
The United Food Bank moved its food distribution to the Mesa Convention Center to help everyone affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Tens of thousands of Valley residents have received essential food boxes and now so have the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
"About a week ago, the White Mountain Apache Reservation tribal council reached out," said United Food Bank spokesperson Tyson Nansel to FOX 10. "They knew their tribal members were in trouble, there wasn't a lot of food going to that reservation, and they were seeing the effects of COVID-19 as well
A few days after Nansel stated that eight food bank workers drove two hundred miles from the distribution center to the Hon-Dah Casino on the White Mountain Indian Reservation with two semis and a box truck.
"We brought up more than 62,000 pounds of food to that reservation and held a drive-thru distribution," said Nansel to FOX 10.
15 volunteers from Resolution Copper, 30 volunteers from the White Mountain Apache Tribe including police, firefighters and tribal council members helped to load boxes of food into the trucks.
This story was originally published by FOX 10.