b'Seniors Staying Healthy With Your Support Seniors are the fastest growing food-insecure population in the country. At The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), one out of every five people we serve is a senior. In addition to our network of over 500 pantries, shelters, and meal programs, GBFB operates a program exclusively for seniors, called the Brown Volunteers pack and distribute hundreds of bags of healthy food for seniors Bag. At 14 locations across Eastern Massachusetts,each month at our Brown Bag distributions run by the Elder Services of usually in or near a senior housing complex, GBFBMerrimack Valley-North Shore.runs once-a-month distributions providing thousands of seniors in need with nutritious food. Elder Services. If an elder only has $20 and needs a prescription filled, which is $18, most of the time, theyre One of our strongest partners in this work is Eldergoing to choose the medicine instead of food.Services of Merrimack Valley-North Shore, which helps run four of our Brown Bag programs.Elder Services hosts Brown Bag distribution sites in Haverhill, Tewksbury and two in Lawrence. Combined, Working with elders for a long time Ive reallythe four programs serve about 2,900 people a month. gotten to know how they sometimes struggle to make decisions about buying prescriptions andThanks to your help, were giving seniors the food they food, said Justin Jordan, program manager atneed to stay strong and healthy. Helping Us Squash Hunger It takes a lot of work to get healthy food to 190 cities and towns across Eastern Massachusettsbut our fleet of delivery trucks puts in the miles to get it all done. Last fall, The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) collaborated with Citizens Bank, one of our longstand-ing supporters, to unveil two new 28-foot refrigerated trucks. Each vehicle carries up to 44,000 meals at a time, delivering food and picking up donations across our service area.The mission to end hunger here is one that all of us at Citizens care passionately about, and we proudlySince 2018, GBFBs Citizens Bank sponsored trucks have delivered over support GBFB as they squash hunger and food4.8 million pounds of food across Eastern Massachusetts.insecurity where we live and work, said Steve Woods, EVP, head of corporate banking at Citizens Bank andAs the trucks are hitting the road, our colleagues are often GBFB board member. spending time at the food bank sorting and preparing more food for shipping. In 2018, our colleagues volunteered nearly 650 In the time since both trucks first hit the road in the fallhours in the food bank warehouse, said Mark Valentino, head of 2018, they have traveled a combined 32,000 milesof nonprofit & healthcare at Citizens Bank. Supporting GBFBs and delivered over 4.8 million pounds of food, includingtrucks and the work they do to get fresh, nutritious food to the more than 1.4 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables.community resonates deeply with all of us at Citizens. Citizens Bank is a GBFB Partner for Impact, one of the 150 businesses and organizations that provide more than just financial support to GBFB. Through volunteerism, event sponsorship, in-kind donations and more, these organizations play a key role in helping GBFB achieve its mission.Get involved:GBFB .org/Partners 4'