Bridgeport Hospital and CT Foodshare set to mark special milestone

Volunteers (left to right) Nicholas Satta, Paul De Regt, Jessica Barszcz, Kristin Ysais, Michell Wallace, Rachel Morrison, Lauren Lengyel, and Jenny Louis stand in front of mobile food bank.

BRIDGEPORT— Bridgeport Hospital, in partnership with CT Foodshare, will serve its 20,000th distribution of food at their mobile pantry, located at 267 Grant St., on Nov. 26 at 9 a.m., according to a press release.

“We are incredibly proud to reach this milestone,” said Gina Smith, manager of Community Health in the Office of Health Equity and Community Impact. “We see firsthand how many families in our community face challenges meeting their basic needs. Through partnerships like this one with CT Foodshare, we’re not just addressing food insecurity, we’re helping relieve stress for families and showing them that their community cares.”

According to Feeding America, it is estimated that more than 516,000 Connecticut residents are food insecure. Of them, over 122,000 are children.

The initiative launched in 2019 and serves approximately 200 households at each distribution.

Numbers will be handed out to those in line starting at 8:30 a.m. and attendees will receive an extra bag of shelf-stable holiday food items from Northeast Medical Group’s Community Outreach Committee.

The Bridgeport Fire Department will also join in at this pre-holiday distribution.

"We love working in this community. Even though we are here to serve the community, we look forward to serving in another way that is not related to emergencies," said Lt. Carlos Reyes.

Bridgeport Hospital, which is part of Yale New Haven Health, is a non-profit 501-bed acute care institution with an additional campus in Milford.

Both serve patients throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties.

Additional mobile pantry dates for Bridgeport Hospital include Dec. 10, Jan. 7 and Jan. 21.

For a complete list of dates, visit the mobile pantry locator at www.ctfoodshare.org.

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