Food Resources for Veterans
The Melrose Veterans Services Office would like to share a couple of opportunities for food assistance to Veterans and surviving spouses.
First, the Melrose Veterans Services Office partners with the Greater Boston Food Bank to provide food to Veterans and their surviving spouses the third Wednesday of the month. Currently they offer a drive-thru food pantry. If you are unable to pick up, they will deliver to you. Please call 781-979-4186 to register. This offering is year round.
In addition, there is now another offering for food assistance in the North Shore. Many of you may have heard about the food distribution for Veterans that was held at Gillette Stadium. In order to make this more accessible to Veterans on the North Shore, the Veterans Northeast Outreach Center and Massachusetts Military Support Foundation Food4Vets is bringing the food drive to the North Shore and Merrimack Valley! They have partnered together with local VSOs to offer assistance to Massachusetts Veterans experiencing limited access to food due to COVID 19. They will be holding drive-through food distribution events on Wednesdays from April 22ndthrough May 13. Distributions will be held on alternate weeks at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill and North Shore Community College in Danvers. Veterans will need to pre-register. If you are a Melrose, Wakefield or Saugus Veteran and are unable to pick up your food, please register and then contact Melrose VSO Karen Burke at KBurke@cityofmelrose.orgor SCaffey@cityofmelrose.orgto arrange delivery assistance. At this time they are able to offer delivery assistance for the Danvers distribution.
To register, use the following links: