On behalf of the Franklin County Community Meals Program, we want to thank the Recorder for acknowledging us in the editorial on July 6, “Shame on U.S. for allowing hunger to persist.”
Since the 1980s, Franklin County Community Meals Program has been working with volunteers to provide cooked meals around the county. In fact, we work with more than 40 groups in the Greenfield, Orange and Turners Falls areas to provide meals four nights a week. Volunteer groups sign up to provide a meal up to a year in advance; some provide one meal a year and some provide a meal every month.
We are currently looking for additional groups to help complete the 2018 schedule of meals. If you’ve ever thought about helping to feed the hungry, please contact us so that we can work together to assure that no one in our community goes to bed hungry. And if cooking a meal for 80 seems too daunting, there are other ways to help.
Join our Brown Bag Brigade by contributing bagged lunches of non-perishable food, which we distribute each Wednesday from our Greenfield meal site. Packing 10 lunches with your kids for those in need is a great way to help and a great way to start a conversation about hunger in our area and in the U.S.
Neighbors nourishing neighbors — that’s our motto — and we thank the Recorder and the local community for their help and support.
Marian Boyd,
president
Andrea Leibson,
executive director