Feed the Boro feeds 1000 families in Saturday food drop

Hundreds of cars line up for Feed the Boro's July food drop

Feed the Boro’s volunteer workers load up the trunks of hundreds of cars with a week’s worth of groceries. Credit: Eden Hodges

Hundreds of families went home with a week's worth of groceries Saturday morning at Feed the Boro 16th food drop at Statesboro High.

Each food drop draws around 800 cars lined down the street with one to two families per car. The food is supposed to feed a family of four two meals a day for a week.

Don Poe, Feed the Boro president, loads boxes of food onto a trailer in the Statesboro High School parking lot. Feed the Boro starts distributing groceries at 8 a.m. Credit: Eden Hodges

"We're never the first people here," said Don Poe, President of Feed the Boro. "They wait in line for a good four and a half hours to get these groceries. They ain't doing it just for the fun."

Poe and his all-volunteer staff arrive at 4 a.m. to set up for the drop. They are always accepting volunteers.

"If I supply somebody $250 of groceries, that frees up $250 out of their budget that they can use for medicines, car repairs, back to school kids clothes or school supplies," said Poe.

With Saturday's food drop, Feed the Boro has given away over 960,000 meals in Bulloch County. Poe projects that next month they'll reach a million meals.