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Philly has handed out 72,000 free food boxes. Here’s how they come together.

It’s a team effort between the city and two of its largest food banks — Philabundance and Share Food Program — to feed thousands who suddenly find themselves food-insecure.

Idris Hodge, left, Juan Reina, center, and James Scott, right, stack boxes of food on a distribution table at the corner of 25th and Diamond on Monday April 6, 2020.
Idris Hodge, left, Juan Reina, center, and James Scott, right, stack boxes of food on a distribution table at the corner of 25th and Diamond on Monday April 6, 2020.Read moreMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer