Early in the morning on Aug. 11 cars lined alongside Stalcup Road to receive meals from the Tarrant Area Food Bank.
“We help the community, especially here in Stop Six, because it’s one of the areas with more poverty,” said Alma Pohler, a Fort Worth ISD volunteer specialist. “The more we help the families to have less stress at home, the better learning environment for the kids.”
Food distribution volunteers receive instructions before preparing boxes of food on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Food distribution volunteers say a prayer on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
A food distribution volunteer bags fruit on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Boxes of food and bags of chicken wait to be distributed on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Pallets of canned goods wait to be distributed on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Volunteers bag fruit and vegetables on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report) 
Cars line up to receive food on Aug. 11 at the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St. The Tarrant Area Food Bank distributes food to about 700 people at the Stop Six mobile food pantry. (Cristian ArguetaSoto | Fort Worth Report)
The mobile food distribution program, which happens the second Thursday of every month, prepared to feed 700 people. Residents picked food up from New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ, 5429 Cox St.
Volunteers from the Fort Worth ISD Action Center, the New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God in Christ and Fort Worth ISD students gathered at 8 a.m., to prepare boxes of canned goods, frozen chicken legs and fruits and vegetables.
“This time of the year is back to school so a lot of churches or schools have a demand. We’re going to be really busy for the next two or three weeks,” said Charles Hodges, the director at the Fort Worth ISD Action Center. “Then it’ll kind of settle down a little bit more into a routine.”
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