Weymouth’s Volunteer Food Market Feeding Hundreds Of Families A Month

WEYMOUTH, MA — One in 11 Massachusetts residents do not know where their next meal is coming from, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Statewide about 650,000 people are food insecure, which is defined as a lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. Together with the Greater Boston Food Bank, Weymouth High School is working to change that.

“Food insecurity is a real thing that we deal with on a daily basis with a lot of our families and our students. I live here, I grew up here, I went through the school system and so to me it was really something that hit home as far as a great way to give back to our community,” Weymouth Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple told WBZ-TV.

Entering into it’s third year, the market is held the first Wednesday of every month at the Weymouth High School cafeteria and it’s run completely by volunteers. Most of them are school employees and students. There are no household income requirements or information required and anyone in the community can attend.

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