ATLANTA -- "You have rice in there, carrots green beans, red pepper.."
It's a double bag kind of day at the Toco Hills Community Alliance. Volunteers bag food that has just come off the truck from the Atlanta Community Food bank. Two hundred families are served by the alliance each week. One in five people in Dekalb County struggles with hunger.
It's mobile food pantry day, and people line up early for the groceries, and for the free hot lunch that is served four days a week.
Executive Director Mary Louise Wilson says that most of the people served by the alliance have jobs, but each month they are forced to choose -- to pay rent or buy food, to pay for medicine or buy food, to pay utilities or buy food.
Wilson says people who come to the alliance are called by name, not by a number. "We're about offeringg hospitality and treating people with dignity."
It's a small yet big thing, in a society where we often judge someone's value based on their economic status.
"We're all about breaking down the us and them. There is no us and them. Just us."
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