OUR PROGRAMS

The food pantry enables clients to “shop” for food once a month. It is stocked with a wide variety of non-perishable foods, paper goods, personal hygiene items, meats, and fresh produce, including fruits and vegetables grown at the Gifts of Love farm. We provide training on the benefits of healthy food choices, ensuring that clients understand how such choices impact their overall health and well-being.Food Pantry
We are on the front lines of fighting childhood hunger with our Weekend Food Backpack program. We distribute backpacks to over 350 students receiving free or reduced-cost lunch in need in Greater Hartford with easy-to-prepare meals and drinks for the family for the weekend and snacks for the student for the week. Students receive their backpacks from their schools at the end of each school week.Weekend Food
Backpacks
During December, we collect gifts from the community and set up and decorate a Holiday Shoppe where our clients and their family can shop for their holiday gifts.The Holiday
Shoppe
Retail Rescue provides an additional 4200 pounds of food for our food pantry monthly, preventing quality food from going to waste.

We provide Thanksgiving Meals - with all the fixins' - to our clients during the holiday season.Thanksgiving MealsRetail Rescue
Every other Tuesday, we facilitate a mobile food pantry, which is open to all in need, in cooperation with Connecticut Foodshare at the Farmington Valley American Muslim Center

Gifts of Love administers Generation Power, an emergency energy assistance program that provides a grant for households that fall within the income guidelines and are experiencing a financial crisis.Generation PowerMobile Food Pantry
If you need services, please contact us at 860-676-2323 or email or contact us online.
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