Your Impact, Your Neighbors

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.