Worcester Interfaith to Host Prayer Vigil to Support the St Vincent s Nurses on Aug 25 as Nurses Strike Reaches 170 Days in Struggle for Safer Patient Care
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Worcester Interfaith to Host Prayer Vigil to Support the St Vincent s Nurses on Aug 25 as Nurses Strike Reaches 170 Days in Struggle for Safer Patient Care
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As USDA food program ends, Central Mass groups work to feed families
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But the program’s volunteers said the need for such a program remains.
“Hundreds of people we’re in contact with haven’t rebounded from COVID,” Nelly Medina, a community organizer with the Parents Union of Massachusetts, said in an interview this week. PUMA helps coordinate the food distribution with Rock of Salvation Church, the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation, and others.
“It’s a dire situation, Medina continued. And they are going to be the hardest hit by the loss of food.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program was enacted as part of the April 2020 Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and partnered with food distributors and nonprofits to buy and distribute $3 billion worth of food to the most vulnerable.