PHILADELPHIA - Community fridges aren't exactly new to Philadelphia, but you may be surprised at just how many there are across Philadelphia.For everyone involved, it's a point of community pride."The importance of being able to provide free food in a community that's consistently overlooked by its own powers that be, it's just absolutely unbelievable," said Sonam and Sonia Parikh.The fridges are a growing trend that started before the coronavirus pandemic, but they've expanded since then.Basically, people are just putting refrigerators in various locations and just filling them up with food.
If you need food, you just come buy and take it."We decided to do this because at the start of the pandemic we noticed that at least three or four.