God's Love We Deliver still providing meals despite challenges presented by coronavirus

The Coronavirus won’t stop God’s Love from providing over 4,600 medically tailored meals to New Yorkers in need

Missing most of their 17,000 volunteers here is how God’s Love We deliver is still providing medically tailored meals to New Yorkers in need and how you can help while keeping a safe social distance.

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A pinch of sugar, dash of spice, and lots of love — that's what goes into every one of the over 9,200 meals that God’s Love We Deliver cooks daily.

Since 1985, the nonprofit has provided medically tailored meals to New York’s most vulnerable residents. The coronavirus, however, is causing it to change the way the non-sectarian organization and its volunteers operate.

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“The coronavirus pandemic has affected absolutely everything we're doing here at God’s Love, and we have been working since the very, very beginning to accommodate to changing protocols and new news every single day,” said Karen Pearl, the CEO of God’s Love We Deliver, in an interview with Fox News.

While the pandemic has affected how their nearly 17,000 annual volunteers correspond with their clients, the production, output and services they provide has not changed.

“When all of the businesses closed and sent everybody to work at home, we literally, in a week, lost a thousand volunteers. So, that was the first challenge."

The second challenge, Pearl said, was to figure out how many volunteers they needed daily to cook, package and deliver their clients' meals every day.

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Keeping social distance in mind, now only about 100 volunteers are working daily to cook the medically tailored meals. In addition to the gloves and aprons they always wear, volunteers are also wearing masks to protect themselves and the food they are producing.

While keeping her staff safe is important, Pearl said their primary concern is the health and safety of the people they care for. “Our clients are among the most vulnerable people in the city. And it's really important that we're doing everything we can to keep them as healthy as possible.”

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Those who deliver food still check in on their clients but from a safe distance.

“We leave the food in a food-safe way. Our drivers step back six or eight or 10 feet, depending upon the building. They watch the client come out and get the food. They can still talk to each other, but just safely," Pearl said.

In addition to food, God’s Love also provides ongoing nutrition assessment, education, and counseling to their clients.

"The same love and compassion and caring that our staff has when they normally talk with clients about what their needs are, or what their nutritional needs are, continues to come forward. And, in some ways, is even heightened now, because our clients are so scared.”

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Even though most of her staff is now working from home, Pearl said the organization is needed now more than ever.

“We've got about 2,000 requests on hold. Then, we're going to try to separate those 2,000 into people who are calling us, who really need medically tailored meals because something has changed in their life because of this virus."