Stories of Impact

Melissa and Sherman have been married for nearly a decade and call Norwalk, Connecticut, home. Like many retirees, a fixed income and rising costs often make it difficult to cover everyday necessities.

With one child just starting college and a toddler at home, Crystalee is a mom who keeps the household going with fresh, healthy food from Connecticut Foodshare mobile pantries.

Eloise, a friendly woman in her early 60s, waved as she waited in line for a mobile food pantry in Stamford.

When Connecticut Foodshare provided a grant to the pantry to help their remodel, new freezers were just one of the benefits.

We met Daniel shopping on his lunch break at one of our mobile food pantries, set up every other Friday in a hilly neighborhood in Stamford.

In Connecticut right now, food insecurity is growing. 1 in 5 children are worrying where their next meal will come from. That's just not acceptable, and we are here for neighbors like Jen and her granddaughter Anijah.

Claudette volunteers three days a week at a community kitchen and shelter system in the Rockville neighborhood of Vernon.

When our neighbors were impacted by the government shutdown and SNAP disruption, our team helped spread the word about our mobile pantry texting schedule and other locations they could find food resources.

We met Ariana, a single mom of two children, at a Connecticut Foodshare mobile food pantry in Willimantic during the government shutdown in November 2025.

Michelle, a therapist in Northwest Connecticut, works with people who are food insecure.

When we first met Tiffany, she was a full-time student living in a shelter in Torrington.

Kay started volunteering at a New London food pantry during the pandemic.

Not long ago visitors to the food pantry at University of Bridgeport had to squeeze into a small room with limited choices.

Autumn and Nathan are raising Joslyn on healthy foods like fresh veggies and fruit, but these foods are so expensive in the grocery store that they have a hard time making their budget work.

Carla joined the first cohort of the culinary training program at St. Vincent de Paul Mission in Waterbury in 2022.

Kayla is a powerhouse of a mom, and her husband is a hardworking truckdriver. Together they are a blended family, raising six children.

Moms like Grace, and her daughter Josie, visit Connecticut Foodshare mobile pantries so they can get the groceries they need.

Candy is a friendly, outgoing, and caring woman who is working full-time and living in the Rockville community of Vernon, Connecticut.

Lucy is an 80-year-old retired school bus driver and nursing professional living in Bloomfield.