Polk charity works to stave off hunger for migrant families
(World News USA)

MULBERRY, Fla. (AP) — Their hands have spent countless hours plucking strawberries, squash and other fruits and vegetables that would eventually end up on the plates and in the stomachs of people they will never meet. As they waited outside their meager homes Wednesday afternoon (May 13), the farmworkers used those hands to receive bags and boxes of food for their families, crucial deliveries that lessen their anxiety during a period of lost work and financial insecurity. A black pickup truck crept along the single unpaved road that bisects a collection of about 20 manufactured homes and trailers in the Willow Oak area outside Mulberry. Families of migrant laborers, including plenty of young...