Coronavirus Diaries: I Run a Soup Kitchen. We’ve Had to Rethink Our Whole Strategy.
SlateCoronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. For Slate’s coronavirus coverage, This as-told-to essay from Walter Ritz, the executive director of Hope Community Services in New Rochelle, New York, has been edited and condensed for clarity from an interview with Cornelia Channing. That first night, we didn’t see as many people as we normally do, which was actually quite ominous because it meant that in all likelihood those people didn’t eat that night. We are the last safety net for a lot of people, and we anticipate that we’ll see more and more people coming in each day. We are also shifting the food pantry to a similar model, moving everything outside to minimize the number of people entering the building.
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