December 4, 2025 Submitted by Susan Kiernan, Hingham Food Pantry
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed – Maya Angelou
Blessings abounded at Hingham Food Pantry this season! Community support has always been strong, especially at this time of year. Donations of both food and money are at their highest in November and December. This season, with the SNAP crisis on your minds and thanks in your hearts, your donations surpassed all expectations. Over the past 30 days Hingham Food Pantry received more than 11,000 pounds of donated food from the community. Individuals, families, churches, the temple, schools, preschools, teams, Scouts, businesses, fraternal and social organizations provided bountiful amounts of food, as well as the ever important turkeys and pies. Generous financial donors guaranteed that we would be able to purchase sufficient dairy as well as the many pounds of meat and produce we would need.
Your overwhelming generosity was a gift in so many ways to the families Hingham Food Pantry serves. In a time of heightened anxiety due to temporary loss of benefits and the stress of a holiday meal, our neighbors were never concerned that the pantry would run short, thanks to you. Spirits were joyful as over 100 volunteers prepared for the holiday, as well as during the four days of distribution. Hingham Food Pantry provided 110 local families just under 1,000 bags of groceries and paper goods. There were just under 250 individuals in those families. In addition, Hingham Food Pantry supported 70 families through the Hingham public schools.
Gratitude was in the air. Thanks abounded for the inventory that volunteers knew was plentiful, for the bags that were loaded into cars that families knew would ensure that their Hingham Thanksgiving tables would be full, and for all of you without whom it could not happen. Thank you for giving cheerfully and allowing both the pantry and our neighbors to accept gratefully. We are a blessed community!