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Mark Wagner
COVID-19 has reduced incomes and disrupted some food supply chains, such that hunger is on the rise. And while food insecurity is impacting vulnerable households everywhere, Worcester has responded in admirable ways.
On four January mornings in the north parking lot at Worcester State, an event organized by Tim Garvin of The United Way and President Barry Maloney at WSU, numerous organizations joined forces to address food insecurity.
These community leaders included The Woo Sox, Ocean State Job Lot, the United Way, Polar Beverages, Table Talk Pies, Girls Inc. and Massachusetts Military Support Foundation. They created drive-through food pantries, distributing about 102,480 pounds of fresh and shelf life food and cases of water, more than 6,000 tasty pies, and close to 1,000 cartons of feminine hygiene products to families who have been suffering during the year of COVID-19 and an unsettled political landscape.