“We’ve just been inundated with people needing help,” said Chris Schapp, head of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank. “A week doesn’t go by where I don’t see new faces.”
Bulk food purchased with the $1.68 million Gov. Mike Dunleavy put towards supporting food banks is staged for delivery in Food Bank of Alaska’s Anchorage warehouse on April 21, 2023.
By his count, Southeast Alaska Food Bank is on track to distribute more than half a million pounds of food in Juneau this year — a record that reflects what it takes to feed about 450 people a week. He said the food bank hasn’t run out of food or had to scale back services yet, thanks in part to aid from the state.
The same dynamic is playing out at food banks across the state. While food from the state’s response is reaching Alaskans in need, people at food banks say the demand is as high as ever.On the House floor last week, Rep. Alyse Galvin, I-Anchorage, said there’s more work to do if Alaska’s most vulnerable residents are still hungry.
Galvin said the Legislature has approved spending millions to update the Division of Public Assistance’s computer system, which it says is partly to blame for the backlog, but she wants the body to take a longer view. She pointed to when the from the division just a couple of years ago.
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