Op-ed: The Hope Machine moved 27,000 pounds of food. Then it died.

Jason and Rena Davis changed this vehicle from a daycare bus to the “Hope Machine.” They made it into a food pantry and drive it to their distribution areas. Asha Blake/The Portager.

Op-ed: The Hope Machine moved 27,000 pounds of food. Then it died.

- Op-Ed Contributor

By Jason and Rena Davis

Like many of you, in the late fall and early winter of 2020, we watched and waited as life came to a standstill and uncertainty became the new norm. We watched the news and wondered how bad it was going to get, how many lives would be lost to or forever changed by the Covid-19 pandemic. We had seen the long lines of folks waiting for boxes of groceries in other states on television and knew that the need must be here in our own community. We had to do something about it. It was in this moment that Rural Relief Mobile Food Pantry was born.

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