b"Catherine's MessageDear Friends,Bringing Fresh Healthy Food to MedwayLast year we embarked on an ambitious plan to create a Hunger Free Eastern Massachusetts by 2028. To accomplish this ambitious goal, we need to accelerate our operations and focus on three key areas of our work: increasing access to nutritious food, building the capacity of our network, and leading and supporting policy and research initiatives.We know that no one can do this alone. Well need to collaborate with partners new and old to achieve this goal. In this issue youll read stories about the dedicated volunteers and donors whoThe Medway Village Food Pantry, led by Director Susan Dietrich (right) serves drive our mission, as well as the story ofhealthy food to more than 800 people in need every month.a new food pantry in a high-need area, opened with support from GBFB.Last year, The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) distributed more than 118,000 pounds of foodthe equivalent of 100,000 All of this empowers us to get morehealthy mealsto our two partner agencies in Medway. fresh food to people in need, like Aaron and Emma, parents who youll readMore than 800 people a month were served by those two food about on page 3.pantries. The Medway Village Food Pantry, which gets about 55 percent of its food from GBFB, saw a 24 percent increase in the Your generous gift helps us strengthenamount of people they served from 2018 to 2019.the entire hunger-relief network and puts healthy food on the kitchen tableThe vast majority of our clients are coming to us because for individuals and families from Capethe cost of living in Massachusetts is increasing, said Susan Ann to Cape Cod. Dietrich, director of the Medway Village Food Pantry.Thank you for supporting our effortThe Medway Village Food Pantry helped people in need from to create a Hunger Free Easternmore than 30 towns last year, with the majority coming from Massachusetts. Together, we can endMedway and Milford. Roughly 40 percent of those served at hunger here.the pantry last year were children, including 572 kids who were helped by the weekend backpack program Susan launched last year. Sincerely,The pantry is also one of our Healthy Pantry Program partners, which emphasizes getting more nutritious food to the people they serve, including distributing recipes from GBFBs healthy Catherine DAmato recipe website, clickncook.org, to help their clients make President and CEOhealthy meals at home. Your generous support helps us give fresh healthy food to hungry people in more than 190 cities and towns across Eastern Massachusetts. Learn more :GBFB .org/Distribution2"