by Jill Coull | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is the hub of the emergency food network of Eastern Massachusetts. With 17,000 square feet of warehouse space, they provided 97 million meals to food pantries across the region last year and distributed $1M in grants to help with...
by Jill Coull | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
When she was 13, Emily Chan moved to the United States with her parents, who hoped to provide more opportunities for their children than they had in their native Hong Kong. Like many families, they struggled. “We were so poor back then,” she remembers. “My parents...
by Jill Coull | Jun 4, 2022 | Volunteer
Masha Boyko started her journey in Moscow. Now living in Newton with her husband and four children, Masha maintains strong ties with friends in Newton’s Russian community. In the height of the pandemic, Masha saw a Facebook post from one of the Newton Food Pantry’s...
by Jill Coull | May 20, 2022 | Featured
Over the past two years, the number of hungry households with children has almost doubled since pre-pandemic times, according to census data. COVID-19 has played a huge role in that uptick. Before COVID, about 8.9% of households with children struggled with food...
by Jill Coull | May 2, 2022 | Featured
Food insecurity can be challenging both mentally and physically. Most families give up their choice of food in order to be able to eat, since what is available and affordable doesn’t always line up with their values or cultural preferences. A North Carolina State...
