Parents group hosting toy drive Thursday at The Bridge in Worcester

NewspaperGuest UserDecember 23, 2021PUMA, Worcester

As USDA food program ends, Central Mass. groups work to fill the void

“We’re missing about 500 boxes of food every week – that’s just the basic milk, cheese, fruit," said Nelly Medina, lead organizer for the Parents Union of Massachusetts, or PUMA. "We have a population of people who have not rebounded from COVID, and they’re hungry and we don’t know how to feed them.”