Thanks to Long Lots Elementary School in Westport for donating more than 300 cans of food to help stock our Food Pantry! 🥫🥫🥫As part of the Souper Bowl of Caring, the Long Lots community came together to help our neighbors in need. The Souper Bowl of Caring is a national movement across the nation working together to fight hunger and poverty in their communities around the time of the Super Bowl football game 🏈 It’s a great way for schools, churches and other organizations to help #tacklehunger. Thank you, Long Lots community! 🙏

The Tomlinson Middle School Girl Scout troop recently put together much-needed winter snack bags for our clients to grab and go. The girls decorated the bags with cheerful messages and then filled them with tuna salad kits, fruit cups, granola bars, mixed nuts, water or juice, utensil packs, napkins, tissues, chapsticks and hand sanitizers. These bags filled with protein packed snacks and some necessities are greatly appreciated by our clients. Thanks to much to the troop for their generous donations and helping hands!

Marking 100 days of school in the elementary schools of Fairfield Public Schools is a big deal 💥 And some of these schools make it an even bigger deal…not for themselves but for our neighbors in need. Holland Hill School is one of these schools. The school’s annual 100 day tradition is to hold a school-wide food drive to help stock Operation Hope’s pantry. Assigned by grade, this year the students collected granola bars, gummy fruit snacks, canned meats, condiments, canned fruit, cereal, oatmeal, peanut butter, honey and jelly. These are much needed items for our pantry clients and their families. Thanks so much to the Holland Hill School community for helping us end hunger and homelessness, one person at a time. We adore our littlest volunteers! 🫶