Stop & Shop and Long Island Cares Provide Meals to Families in Need

Stop & Shop stores across Nassau County adopted 20 Long Island families selected by Long Island Cares Inc, The Harry Chapin Food Bank, and provided them with holiday meals for their Easter and Passover celebrations.

Issues of food insecurity and pandemic impact have made the assistance of Stop & Shop and Long Island Cares so important, which includes allowing them to hold traditional family holiday celebrations.

According to Long Island Cares Inc, The Harry Chapin Food Bank, forty-two percent of the 218,000 food-insecure people on Long Island are not eligible for SNAP benefits based on Federal Poverty Income Guidelines. They are the working poor. These families have an annual income of $50 - $70,000 a year and still struggle with food insecurity. They are penalized for not meeting the strict requirements for government assistance.

Long Island Cares – The Harry Chapin Food Bank helped meet their needs by distributing nearly 14 million pounds of food, the equivalent of 11.5 million meals.