CHARLOTTE – Starting this week, nearly a hundred Charlotte families are getting help to get fresh groceries.

  • Food pantries across the Queen City are pairing with Lyft to get clients to much needed aid
  • It's part of the Lyft Grocery Access Program to save families a commute to get food and fight food insecurity
  • Lyft covers up to a $10 dollar fare eight times a month. Families are responsible for two dollars of the fare

Food pantries across the Queen City are pairing with Lyft to get clients to much needed aid.

It's part of the Lyft Grocery Access Program to save families a commute to get food and fight food insecurity.

Last year Loaves and Fishes fed more than 75,000 people and 46 percent were children.

“Knowing that someone could bring us here would be amazing. It would help us want to get out and get the service,” mom Maria Sanders says.

Lyft covers up to a $10 dollar fare eight times a month. Families are responsible for two dollars of the fare.

Volunteers say they're glad the program will also help clients carry the heavy groceries closer to their front door.

The pilot program runs through January 2020.