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Hope for Housing

Got Milk? No? Well, before you run out to the grocery store for milk or your week’s groceries, please be sure to pick up a food card at Wesley and help prevent homelessness in the process.

Hope for Housing is a non-profit program developed by the Interfaith Coalition to Prevent Family Homelessness with assistance from the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance. The goal of the project is to utilize the collective buying power of congregations to prevent family homelessness and to advocate for homeless prevention policies.

Hope for Housing purchases food cards in bulk from three local supermarkets which are available for purchase at Wesley in Brewer Hall each Sunday. The supermarkets will then donate 5% of all sales using the cards to the Hope for Housing Central Massachusetts Program to assist families at risk of homelessness.

Food cards are available in various amounts of $10-$100 for your grocery shopping at Big Y, Shaw’s and Stop ‘n’ Shop. What you don’t use remains on the card for future use. By using these food cards for our grocery needs, we can make a significant difference -- and it doesn’t cost us anything!