"Community Kitchen to launch mobile food pantry"

The Community Kitchen in Keene will soon launch its long-awaited mobile food pantry, with a pilot program set for this summer.

The new program is needed, officials say, to eliminate transportation issues or any other barriers for people in the Monadnock Region who are food insecure, meaning they don’t know where their next meal will come from.

“We’ve been working on this for quite some time,” Sarah Harpster, hunger solutions advocacy coordinator for The Community Kitchen, said in a news release. “We’ve done feasibility studies that suggest the need is out there, with rising food and gas costs making food insecurity especially acute.” READ MORE