Lines form at Camden Yards -- not for baseball, but for chef Jos Andrs'

food relief effort in Baltimore.

'Six months ago, 18-year-old Kamrin Brown was one of the so-called squeegee kids asking motorists at North Avenue and Howard Street for spare change. On Saturday, he was at Camden Yards handing out bags of free food to people who might need it even more than he does.

"They always offer a bag of food to us, too," Brown said as he loaded and unloaded trucks on behalf of a new food relief effort organized by World Central Kitchen.

“I don’t always take it,” Brown said. “There are people out there who who really need it. I wish I could be giving away boxes of food, instead of just bags.”

World Central Kitchen is the Washington, D.C.-based charity started in 2010 by celebrity chef — and 2019 Nobel Peace Prize nominee — José Andrés.'

Many of the 50 Baltimoreans who unloaded the trucks, placed a week’s worth of meals in bags and directed traffic on Saturday were volunteers. But Brown and the other dozen teens who were part of the Mayor’s Squeegee Alternative Plan were paid $75 for six hours of work.

The mayor’s plan aims to create a source of income for youngsters who had been trying to scrape up cash by cleaning the windshields of motorists stopped in traffic.'>>>

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