AUDIO Transcript: DoorDash helps Central New Yorkers during government shutdown
Josh Markowitz: On November 1st, the U.S. Department of Agriculture stopped funding the federal food stamp program. NCC’s Caitlin McDonough describes how DoorDash is keeping residents nourished.
Caitlin McDonough: Around fifty thousand Central New Yorkers lost their access to food snap benefits. DoorDash is helping out by waiving delivery fees to get people meals. Driver Adriana Leone says the company’s goal is to support the community.
Adriana Leone: DoorDash cares about the less fortunate in the communities that their app serves in and is helping people who have been affected by the recent government shutdown, by making their lives a little easier and making it more accessible for them to get groceries.
McDonough: Chief development officer at Foodmaker Central New York Lynn Hy says her center is already using the help.
Lynn Hy: We already have a relationship with DoorDash. We’re in further conversation of how if this shutdown and these benefits get delayed or completely canceled, how we could use them potentially moving forward as well.
McDonough: Central New York relies on $22 million per month to help low income families access food. Caitlin McDonough, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Around 50,000 Central New Yorkers lost their access to Food SNAP benefits. DoorDash is helping out by waiving delivery fees to get people meals. Driver Adriana Leone says the company’s goal is to support the community.
“DoorDash cares about the less fortunate in the communities that their app serves in and is helping people who have been affected by the recent government shutdown by making their lives a little easier and making it more accessible for them to get groceries,” said Leone.
Chief Development Officer Lynn Hy of Foodmaker Central New York says her center is already using the help.
“We already have a relationship with DoorDash. We’re in further conversation of how if this shutdown and these benefits get delayed or completely canceled, how we could use them potentially moving forward as well,” said Hy.
Central New York relies on $22 million per month to help low-income families access food.