The spotlight on Ivanka Trump may be off and the media entourage that followed her every move may be 852 miles up Interstate 95 and mesmerized by President Biden’s dogs, but that hasn’t slowed her mission to help people struggling through the coronavirus pandemic.
Far from the glare of Washington this week, she joined former President Donald Trump’s longtime minister Paula White to distribute the Department of Agriculture’s “Farms to Families” food boxes at White’s City of Destiny church in Apopka, Florida, a 30-minute drive north of Orlando.
In a familiar scene repeated at several stops while working alongside her husband and father in the White House, Trump put the boxes in waiting cars and took time to talk to several families hit economically by the virus.
“The experience of distributing 1,320 F2F food boxes alongside Ivanka Trump again, who has been a champion of this great program and continues to serve hurting humanity with love, compassion, and action, was impactful and inspiring,” White told Secrets.
Trump last year spearheaded the program to distribute food in the $1.5 billion program. Critics said it was for show, but yesterday’s event proved that it wasn’t. Photos showed her dressed simply in white sneakers and a blue and white checked dress, waiting in the sun to hand out the boxes and praying inside the church with White.
After the church event, she went to the houses of some of those who could not get to City of Destiny to hand out the “Farmers to Families” food boxes.
She also stopped in a shelter for victims of human trafficking. During the Trump administration, she focused on human trafficking and female equality.
She helped give out 1,300 boxes on Tuesday as part of the food program, and she gave out 133 million boxes of fresh fruit, vegetables, produce, and dairy to those in need during the Trump administration.
The Agriculture Department said today that the program has now distributed 144,375,064 boxes.
Trump, similar to her father and several former top aides, has relocated to Florida. She and her husband, Jared Kushner, live in the Miami area.
White sat with Trump in the meetings with several families and described some of their stories.
“As we sat with families and heard their stories of not only food insecurity but traumatic events, which shaped their situation, a mother and wife to a 16-year-old son who came home the day before from open heart surgery and his father who has lymphoma, a disabled mother who lost her son to a drug overdose, a human-trafficking survivor who has now graduated college and is working with law enforcement to help rescue other victims, we left with more hope and greater commitment to continue in every way possible serving those who desperately need help with nutritious food and more,” White said.
