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Food, supplies given to more than 4k Harvey victims in Third Ward

HOUSTON – Drivers backed up in the Third Ward left with trunks full of goodies on Wednesday.

Volunteers with Team Pick Me Up handed out canned food to nearly 4,000 cars with people hurt by Hurricane Harvey and still struggling to make ends meet.

At Cullen and Griggs Road, volunteers stuffed canned spaghetti by the box into cars for hours.

“We still need help,” one driver said to Team Put Me Up founder, Barry Thompson.

Thompson's group targets Hurricane Harvey victims like Antoinette Bradley. She is blind with five children living in a home wrecked by last summer’s storm.

When asked about her biggest worry, Bradley said, “not having enough (and) not being there to support my children.”

Ever since Good Samaritans from SonRise church saved Thompson’s sister during the storm, Thompson aims to pay it forward.

Team Put Me Up gives away palettes of goods three times a week in 12 spots around Houston. Several are in Third Ward.

“One of the things required to put people up is to feed them,” Thompson said. “We want to feed people as much as we can and provide them with supplies that are necessary on a daily basis.”

We met people from South Park with no damage. However, they collected goods to give to neighbors struggling to take care of loved ones who lost nearly everything.

“I know three or four families like that,” Lester Lynch, who collected goods said. “These young girls they have kids. They don’t have a way to get there.”

“The need is mainly food, some clothes, some income, people trying to survive, trying to make it,” George Swope, who took goods to neighbors said.

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