CHARLOTTE — Hundreds of volunteers gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center to help people impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.
About 250 volunteers from Coca-Cola Consolidated joined forces with Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.
They packed 10,000 boxes of food to send to western North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Second Harvest CEO Kay Carter said this is the kind of support she has come to expect from the people of Charlotte.
“We’re always wanting to help; we always want to be out there trying to support and try to help, feeding people in our own region but also trying to help when folks are hit by a disaster,” Carter elaborated.
Volunteers said it took about two hours to pack up all the food.
Those boxes will be heading to Asheville this week.
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