The Saint Clare Food Pantry is an ongoing, weekly collection of nonperishable food items that are distributed to the Mobile FoodShare Program at the Sacred Heart Church campus in East Berlin, the Town of Berlin Food Pantry, and the Friendship Center in New Britain.

Parishioners are invited to bring nonperishable food donations to church and drop them off either before of after Mass.

If you'd like volunteer with the St. Clare Food Pantry or with our Mobile FoodShare program, please contact Nancy Timbrell at [email protected] or Ed Como at [email protected].
 

Mobile Foodshare is an anti-hunger organization based in Bloomfield that receives donations of fresh and nonperishable food from farms, grocery chains, corporations and local food drives and then distributes that food to pantries, meal programs & food truck sites for those in need.
 
A Foodshare truck comes to Sacred Heart Church every other Friday.
(The specific dates are printed in our bulletin every week.)

At 10am on the Thursday before each "Foodshare Friday", volunteers transport food from the St. Clare Food Pantry at St. Paul Church over to Sacred Heart Church Hall and set up for the Friday distribution.

The Foodshare truck at Sacred Heart opens at 11:45am. Many people in need come to the truck for fresh items and then head down to the Church Hall for non-perishable items that were donated by our parishioners!
 
 In addition to providing a much needed supplement to the FoodShare truck, the non-perishable items that are donated to our St. Clare Food Pantry benefit Berlin families in need as well as other local organizations such as the Friendship Center in New Britain.
 
 
For information regarding the St. Clare Food Pantry or Mobile Foodshare, including information about volunteering, please contact Ed Como at 860-841-7151 or Nancy Timbrell 860-601-7866.
 
Thank you to our parishioners for your continued support!


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