Meal Kits Ready For Eastern Shore Homeless

Come Tuesday roughly 50,000 meal kits similar to these will be loaded up into two tractor trailers and sent across the Eastern Shore to feed those in need. 

"It's important because there's so many people who are in need and when it comes to the winter time it's rough on everybody, and we had a rough winter for several weeks," said Wicomico County Executive, Bob Culver. 

The meal kits are a joint effort among the Maryland Department of General Services, the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives and the Department of Housing and Community Development — all working together to feed the homeless. 

"It's very important as our office to interact with communities, and we want to make sure that we touch and uplift everybody that we can," said Steven McAdams, executive director at the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives

"And the meals… What better way to give people in need food and help them out," McAdams said. 

The food has already been on quite a journey. 

The Department of General Services have made a trek over 300 miles to pick up the food from down south.

Brad Thomas, property administrator at the Maryland Department of General Services, said the federal government told them about a month and a half ago they had a warehouse full of excess property to give to the states.

The excess property, which are the meal kits, were picked up in North Carolina to get up to Maryland and will be loaded to the trailer trucks at the Salisbury Food Bank. 

The meal kits will be given to non-profit organizations, including food pantries and home shelters, whose mission is to feed the underserved. 

"This will give people hope," Culver said.

 "This will give people the chance to get out and get something to eat and then maybe go ahead and take that time for apply to a job."