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Daryl Walker is home when he’s at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
“This is where I started, and it felt good to come back,” he said recently, while standing in the food bank’s production kitchen. “This is my home.”
Daryl is the FoodBank’s Production Manager, supervising a team that prepares food every day for distribution through our Child Nutrition programs.
But, before Daryl started – and then came back – to the food bank, he had a lot to overcome.
Fednel graduated from CFBNJ’s brand new Warehouse Logistics Training Academy (WLTA) earlier this year as class valedictorian. After eight weeks learning about inventory management, compliance, purchasing, and more, he got a full-time job in our warehouse.
“I got more experience and knowledge of the warehouse in the program,” he said. “I learned leadership, innovation, and problem solving that I use now as an employee.”
A lifelong resident of Irvington – right around the corner from CFBNJ’s Hillside warehouse – Fednel has seen food insecurity first-hand.
“There were times when I saw my friends have tough times,” he told us. “In Irvington, I’ve seen some poverty.”
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