Once a month, volunteers gather to help prepare donated food packages for over 500 low-income senior citizens in the Lowell-Chelmsford area as part of the Brown Bag Lunch program. It's a collaboration between the Elder Services of Merrimack Valley and the Greater Boston Food Bank. Today, (May 27) a faithful crew of Kronites, (Deb O'Connell, Lillian Montero, and myself) helped out with the program.
Volunteers unloaded palettes of food-filled boxes from the Food Bank's 18-wheeler truck, then unpacked over 150 boxes of pre-assembled bags of food staples such as cereal, rice, pasta, and canned goods. Volunteers then placed the brown bags in plastic bags with handles, and added more food items, such as yogurt and raisins. Loaded bags were lined up and picked up by local agencies, which then will hand-deliver the bags to individual seniors. All told, volunteers prepared over 500 bags of food staples for local seniors in less than two hours! Way to go team!
