Mobile Foodshare Coming to Mansfield

Foodshare and the Town of Mansfield have joined together to help fight hunger in the community with the Mobile Foodshare Program.

The town, in conjunction with the Mansfield Housing Authority, is launching the program Thursday at Wright's Village in Storrs.

“We’d really like to see this kind of fill a gap in terms of a need,” Kevin Grunwald, Mansfield's director of human services said.

"This is an opportunity to provide people with fresh produce, with dairy and with some options they haven’t had in the past,” he said.

The mobile food truck will set up in the back parking lot on Wright's Way from 11:15-11:45 a.m. Sept. 20, and will return every other Thursday.

"People are really excited to have Mobile Foodshare come to their location," Gloria McAdam, president and CEO of Foodshare, said in a prepared statement. "It just goes to show how much the community wants and needs this program," she said.

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There are no eligibility requirements for the program. 

“It’s really intended to serve people who really feel they have a need," Grunwald said.

Recipients are only asked to bring their own bags for transporting food items, as bags will not be provided Thursday.

Mobile Foodshare currently operates 54 sites in 26 towns throughout greater Hartford, and in 2011, distributed over 2.6 million pounds of produce, according to the Foodshare Web site.

"We’re excited to be working with them," Grunwald said. "This is a group that is really very enthusiastic about what they’re able to do. We think it’s going to be a real success,” he said.

For more information, contact Mansfield's Human Services Department at 860-429-3316.