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Upper Darby woman opens food pantry in backyard

UPPER DARBY, Pa. – A mother of five is on a mission to help people trying to keep food on the table during the pandemic so she opened a pantry in her backyard in Upper Darby. “We set up social distancing guidelines and we just put the word out. It just started to explode,” Desiree…

Hungry as a child, this Philadelphia woman now uses her own house as a food pantry

Memories of not having enough to eat fueled Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy to first help herself, then to help others. Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy grew up without enough food. Back in the mid-1980s, school days were the hardest, when she’d sit without lunch in the cafeteria of the former William B. Mann Elementary School (now Mastery Charter Mann Elementary)…