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Food insecurity on the rise in Athens and surrounding areas. Here's one food bank trying to make a difference

Cathi Mowen, right, gives frozen food to an Oglethorpe County resident who stopped by Burt's United Methodist Church Food Bank.
Julianne Akers
Cathi Mowen, right, gives frozen food to an Oglethorpe County resident who stopped by Burt's United Methodist Church Food Bank.

Food insecurity is a problem not just in Athens but in surrounding counties as well. Recently, as part of the Covering Poverty Project at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, WUGA’s Julianne Akers visited a food bank in Oglethorpe County.

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