(Hartford, Conn. WTIC)-The issue of food insecurity increases during the summer and the CT Food Bank/Food Share hopes three options help the cause
President and CEO Jason Jakubowski says the organization offers seven hundred food pantries and one hundred mobile emergency drive-thrus.
It also used federal American Rescue Plan money for emergency distribution sites throughout the state. Jakubowski says that effort alone fed 41-thousand families.
He says the demand increases especially for children lacking access to mealsin school.
Jakubowski says the effort by his organization cost at least 75-thousand a week. Donations can be made to either ctfoodbank.org or food share.org.