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The Childrens Milk Fund provides milk for needy children in Worcester, MA. Milk is delivered once each week to 22 food pantries, group homes, shelters, day programs, and soup kitchens in Worcester, MA.  This is the only regular source of donated milk in the area.    At present, 715 gallons of milk are donated each week-at no cost to the recipients.  The milk is either used at the agency of given to the child’s family to take home, depending on the type of program.

One third of the children in 14 low income neighborhoods in Worcester, MA are considered hungry or at risk of hunger. 

Rachel’s Table’s hunger relief program uses volunteers to transport donated food from area restaurants, markets, companies, caterers, and individuals to 39 food pantries, group homes, day programs, shelters, and soup kitchens in the city. We provided over 100,000 pounds of donated food-at no cost-last year. Most of this food would be wasted if not donated.

The Children’s Milk Fund purchases and delivers milk for children at 22 agencies every week.

The Summer Meal Program buys fruits and vegetables for meals that are provided at sites throughout the city in the summer when school is closed.  Last year over 21,000 pounds of produce was provided for over 90,000 meals.

Rachel’s Table provides special individually wrapped food items for the Homeless Outreach and Advocacy Program that helps the homeless.  This food is given to people who haven’t eaten as they wait for other services. $250 is spent every month.

Our objective is to provide as much food and milk for the growing number of hungry men, women and children as we can.  At the same time, by “rescuing” excess perishable and nonperishable food, we save this food from being wasted.

We started the Children’s Milk Program when we received requests from agencies that we worked with for fresh milk for the children that they help.  Milk is expensive and nutritious and often beyond the budget of poor families and also the social service agencies that help them.  We are the only regular source of donated milk and provide all or most of the milk that the agencies in the program use.  The number of children receiving milk is only determined by the amount of money that we can raise.

From the Salvation Army:

“Thank you so much for the Gift of Milk!

The milk you supply for our programs is one of the most requested items that we have available to our clients. It helps provide our children and their families the much needed nourishment that only milk can give.

We continue to see a growing number of new families each week to our Food Pantry with one main request-MILK. Please know how grateful and appreciative they are for each half gallon that our program makes available to them.”