Wednesday, April 29, 2026

[PHOTOSTORY 5: STRUGGLE] FEEDING THE BORO

By: William McCranie

 

Feed The Boro is hosting a food drop at Statesboro High School. The event took place on Saturday, April 25th.

There is a lot of volunteers who showed up early this morning to give back. There were students from elementary school up to students at Georgia Southern, spending their time as volunteers.

There are pallets filled with food and essentials, like these cases of blackberry juice. The people in need lined up in a drive-thru line in their cars for Feed The Boro to have easy access to put food in their cars.

There is also fruit and vegetables ready to be given out, like these pears. Every car was given two bags each.

A young kid is picking up bags of beans to put in the next car. He spent a lot of time sorting the beans out of the bags.

Volunteers are waiting at their stations to load up cars. Each car was given fish sticks, fruit, drinks, beans, and snacks.

The line of cars wrapped around the parking lot, waiting for their turn. Cars showed up before 7:30 to make sure they had a spot in line.

A group of Georgia Southern students is waiting to hand out bags of pears. It was around 8:30 a.m., and there was a noticeable dent in the food left.

A Feed the Boro banner celebrating the United States of America's 250th birthday. There were multiple signs and trucks promoting Feed the Boro.

There's an overabundance of onions. At the end the organizers were telling the volunteers to take two bags of onions home each.

There are two lanes for the drive-thru, with stations on each side handing out food. This helped get through more cars faster and was efficient with all the volunteers there to help.

Many of the volunteers are wearing volunteer shirts with some of the local businesses that are helping sponsor the event.

Volunteers are handing out boxes of frozen fish sticks. There was also an overabundance of fish sticks, with some volunteers taking some home.

Bags of onions waiting to be given out towards the end of the event. It's no wonder they were asking some volunteers to take some home.

The last car in line is able to get as much extra as they need. The event ended a little before 10 a.m. with hundreds of people getting the food they needed.

The event is coming to an end, and volunteers are starting to pack and clean up. They are loading the leftover blackberry juice into a truck.

With no more cars in line, volunteers are breaking down boxes. These boxes will later be recycled.

Feed the Boro is using a moving truck to help transport everything. There was a ton of food piled onto pallets.

Volunteers are packing up leftover boxes of fruit cups. These are going back into the moving truck.

The volunteers are packing everything up. There was a big turnout of people helping and people showing up to be helped.

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