food insecurity

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As the pandemic continues, Foodshare and other organizations are helping to feed families in need during the Thanksgiving holiday.

The need for food has skyrocketed during the last eight months as families try to cope with growing food insecurities. Wednesday morning at Rentschler Field, hundreds of people showed up hoping to receive a mixture of food items for meals. Jose Colon showed up for the second time since he lost his job as a construction worker. “I’ve been...

Pop up food pantries showing up in Bristol as neighbors work to support neighbors battling food insecurity during these challenging times.

Lisa Glazier knows how it feels to need a helping hand. “I’m a school bus driver,” the lifelong Bristol resident said. “So every summer, I’m on unemployment, I have to hit the food pantries, I get it, I understand it. I’ve been doing it for 20 years, I have no shame in that. I get food from other people,...

The shelves at Norwich Free Academy’s in-school food pantry are bare. The pantry became depleted when the pandemic first hit. Since then, it has been a challenge to keep the shelves stocked as the need only grows. “The need just got much bigger. Families lost their jobs,” said Shirley Kutia, who runs the food pantry and the free clothing...

Backus Hospital has provided Norwich Free Academy with a $10,000 grant to help the school keep its food pantry stocked to feed students’ families in need during the pandemic.

Thanksgiving is a holiday centered around family, friends and food. While family and friends could be at a minimum this year, there are some organizations around the state trying to ensure that food is still plentiful for those in need. Loading cars with bags of donated food into cars Saturday, volunteers with Hartford’s Community Renewal Team (CRT) helped 24 families…

Charitable efforts in Hartford and Waterbury provided food for thousands of meals.

The Community Renewal Team held a food drive to provide for families in need this Thanksgiving.

Volunteers and members of Boy Scouts of America Troop 1 helped prepare Thanksgiving meals for those struggling with food insecurity in Milford on Saturday. 2020 marks the sixteenth year that Troop 1 has hosted the ‘Thanks for Giving’ fundraiser for the Milford community. All hands were on deck at Wasson Field for the fundraiser put on by the Boy Scouts…

A group of Boy Scouts in Milford are helping collect food for an annual food drive, something that seems even more urgently needed this year during the pandemic.

Feeding America recently revealed that more than 50 million people may experience food insecurity in 2020 due in part to the coronavirus pandemic. Kate Leone joined LX News from the organization to explain how one missed paycheck can put a family at risk of food scarcity and why children are being hit especially hard by the crisis.

Stop & Shop donated 1,000 turkeys to the Connecticut Food Bank Tuesday as they continue to deal with record levels of food insecurity due to the pandemic. “We have purchased more food since April than we did in the last six years combined,” said Paul Shipman of CFB. The organization is expecting to serve some 400,000 clients this year because…

The Connecticut Food Bank is seeing a huge need for food during the pandemic this year, an increased demand for meals and an increase in food insecurity throughout the area it serves.

LX News speaks with Bread for the World’s Heather Taylor about the state of food insecurity and poverty in the U.S., which have been rising as congressional negotiations over another stimulus package continue to drag on without action.

Foodshare has distributed food to people in 200,000 cars at Rentschler Field in East Hartford since the COVID pandemic started in March. Foodshare plans to continue that distribution through November and over the last two weeks organizers started seeing more families face food insecurity. They would typically get 1,800 cars a day and now they’re serving about 2,200. “We’re seeing…

Foodshare has distributed food to people in 200,000 cars at Rentschler Field in East Hartford since the COVID pandemic started in March.

In Blue Handmade, a leather accessories company in North Carolina, has been donating 50 meals for every bag sold during the pandemic. The owner, Mary Lynn Schroeder, joined LX News to talk about how the donation program has helped keep her business running during the economic downturn while helping people in need.

Friday morning Randolph Bond was at the Keefe Community Center, loading up a second round of food boxes in the back of his pick-up truck. “Thirty boxes on my last trip,” said Bond. He’s delivering the boxes from the “Farmers to Families” program to people he knows around Hamden, who, eight months in to the coronavirus pandemic, could use...