Food Cupboard

Safe Net Ministries Food Cupboard (“Food Cupboard”) is located at 68 Main Street Stafford Springs, CT. This new addition to the Safe Net family is the result of many hours of planning and is a dream come true. This is a supplemental Food Cupboard and is open to all Stafford residents and members of Stafford congregations. All we require is that prospective recipients come to the Food Cupboard with a picture ID and fill out a self-declaration of income form. The time and effort spent planning in 2009 enabled us to open the Food Cupboard in January 2010. During the month of January we registered 75 families and a total of 197 people, distributing 2,979 meals. Safe Net was able to accomplish this task by becoming a Food Share partner. This relationship enables us to obtain food at an average price of 17 cents a pound. This is a remarkable advantage to Safe Net in meeting our goal of eliminating hunger in our town. There is no reason someone should be hungry in Stafford! Qualification for food stamps (or as it is now called SNAP) is 135% of poverty; however Safe Net is able to distribute to families at 235% of poverty. This enables us to assist those who fall just short of the mark, along with those on SNAP and other state and federal programs. Safe Net’s primary mission is to assist those whose income is just a little over the cut off for services. We estimate the annual budget for the cupboard will be $22,000. Safe Net has faith that we will succeed and it is committed to this project.