(Relevant) At the beginning of the pandemic, humanitarian aid nonprofit Convoy of Hope came up with a simple, if lofty goal: ten million meals for people in need. Given the unprecedented scope of the COVID-19 crisis, it wasn’t hard to assume there’d be an unprecedented need for food among those affected. So Convoy started networking with local communities and churches to figure out how to get meals and other necessary resources into the hands of the people who needed them. Ten million sounded like a lot, and it was, so organizers were surprised when they blew through their goal with ease. So a new, higher goal was set — and achieved. And then another, and another …and so on.
To date, Convoy of Hope has handed over 125 million meals and counting since the COVID-19 pandemic came to the U.S. providing help and hope to an astonishing number of people who had nowhere else to turn. RELEVANT spoke with Steve Pulis, Convoy of Hope’s Senior Director of Community Events, about just how it happened.