Sprint business customers use 4G applications to improve care in hospitals, keep crime in check through mobile video surveillance, gather television news in ways never seen before and access real-time data instantaneously. Now, the Greater Chicago Food Depository uses 4G to bring food to families who need it.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository feeds 142,000 people a week in conjunction with local partners, including pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. Last year, it distributed 58 million pounds of food to the community.
Despite the success in food distribution, the depository was challenged on how to broaden the availability of food stamps to eligible recipients.
“Either people didn’t know about the food stamps program, didn’t know where to sign up or didn’t know if they were eligible,” said Muhammad Khan, IT director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
To address the challenge, the food depository equipped food stamp outreach coordinators with Sprint 4G-powered laptops. They crisscrossed Cook County, going from food pantries to city agencies, churches and community centers to sign up eligible recipients. Using laptops, the coordinators widened the reach of the food stamp program dramatically and sped up the sign-up process for hundreds of applicants using 4G speeds and broadband capacity.
“By taking the program on the road – so to speak – with the help of Sprint 4G, the number of people we touched and the awareness we created grew exponentially,” Khan said. “With the 4G network, the speed and capacity for sending data is impressive.
The faster the connection speed, the more people the coordinators can help in the few hours they spend at each agency.”
Todd Rowley, Sprint vice president of 4G, said the depository’s story
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