AUSTIN (KXAN) — H-E-B, Central Texas Food Bank and Capital Metro have joined forces to help Austin’s elderly and disabled during the coronavirus outbreak.
Members from each organization will load Metro Access vehicles with the Food Bank’s “help-at home” kits Monday morning.
The kits contain:
- Peanut butter
- Rice
- Soup
- Canned vegetables
- Other pantry staples
If you want to request a kit for delivery, customers must call 512-369-6050 between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. A limit is in place of one kit per week for each MetroAccess customer. They will be available on a first requested, first-served basis.
Overall, they are meant to provide relief for the community’s most vulnerable.
We want to make sure that our most vulnerable customers can stay at home to protect their health and safety, and not worry about how they will get basic necessities. We are very thankful for our ongoing partnership with H-E-B and the Central Texas Food Bank during this critical time.
Cap Metro Vice President of Demand Response and Innovative Mobility, Chad Ballentine
H-E-B donated $150,000 to support this effort and will help Capital Metro deliver the kits to its MetroAccess customers. This donation comes one week after H-E-B invested $1.2 million into Feeding Texas and delivered a trailer of food to the Central Texas Food Bank.
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