Merrimack Valley food bank facing food shortage
Posted by Common on Feb 4, 2010 in News • No comments
The Merrimack Valley Food Bank will run out of food by the end of next month unless it steps up food collections, an official there said.
The Lowell-based organization, which supplies homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Greater Lawrence and throughout the region, is down almost 45 percent on food donations, while demand from the agencies it supplies is up by more than 60 percent, said Lisa Couturier, business development and fundraising coordinator.
As companies have laid off workers and cut employees’ pay, more people have turned to social services for help feeding their families, an increase that has led to the diminished supply at the food bank.
“We’re serving the working poor now,” Couturier said “It’s not just people who are out of work.’
to Donate:
Merrimack Valley Food Bank
http://www.mvfb.org/
