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Date: 7/12/2023
LUDLOW — The new Veterans Center recently was able to have permanent cabinets installed in its food pantry thanks to a grant from the Home Depot Foundation in the amount of $8,087.
Home Depot also donated some freezers, and the state Veteran of Foreign Wars donated a refrigeration unit.
Veterans’ Services Director Eric Segundo said, “We are serving double the number of families since we have moved and having the new refrigeration unit that was donated by the state VFW has dramatically helped as well. We are now able to keep perishables.”
Segundo added he would like to say thank you to Home Depot for the donation and Exterior Associates Inc., who “did a fantastic job on the installation.”
The food pantry is set up in the conference room in the Veterans Center so with the new cabinets, the food can be organized and hidden during meetings.
The food used to be displayed on shelving with wheels.
Working out of Town Hall, the Ludlow Veterans’ Services was helping on average about 50 families a week but adding a second day during which people can visit the food pantry has increased that to 100 families a week.
The food pantry is open every Monday from 2-4:30 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and is always looking for donations.
“We are always looking for nonperishable items that are not expired and they all go. It doesn’t matter what type of stuff we have here it goes so we will take anything,” Segundo added.
It will also be open on the first Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Segundo said that food insecurity has been one of the biggest issues facing the veterans’ population in recent years and this is another resource to support our veterans and their families.