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THE FOOD PANTRY at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention has a qualification process and offers bread and produce as seen here, as well as meats and a variety of other foods set up as a grocery store so clients can peruse as they would at a grocery store.
THE FOOD PANTRY at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention has a qualification process and offers bread and produce as seen here, as well as meats and a variety of other foods set up as a grocery store so clients can peruse as they would at a grocery store.
BRUNSWICK

Donors, volunteers, clients, staff, and community partners gathered at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program in Brunswick Friday to celebrate the grand re-opening of their newly expanded and renovated building.

“This project was so meaningful to Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program,” said MCHPP Executive Director, Karen Parker. “The storage space we can now access is incredible and will allow our Food Bank to grow for years to come. The comfortable waiting room space for our clients makes MCHPP a more inviting and family friendly place to visit. The reconfigured office space is flexible, and is much better suited to serve the agency now and into the future.”

Assistant Superintendent of Brunswick Schools Pender Makin, Chief Council for Revision Energy Steve Hinchman and Mary Herman of Mary J. Herman Consulting also spoke at the event.

“MCHPP is a nonprofit with a very lean staff, as many of you know, and an amazing crew of volunteers,” said Herman. “I am so proud to be part of this community with so many volunteers on a daily and weekly basis. I want to express gratitude to all of you as a neighbor, and as a person who walks by here at least once or twice a day. I want to express deep gratitude to all of you who are involved as a volunteer, as a donor to Mid Coast Hunger; gratitude to Revision Energy, which is doing amazing things; gratitude to a school department that cares about our children and how they learn. This was built to serve the needs of the community, and amazing things are going to happen.”

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The expanded space provides ample dry and cold storage for MCHPP to store all food donations on site, a client waiting room, newly configured and more flexible offices, and solar panels which will provide roughly 60 percent of the organization’s electrical needs. In Ms. Parker’s words: “$625,000 raised, five months of construction, and not one day closed. I am so thankful to the donors, volunteers, board members, clients and staff members who made this possible. We could not have done this without each and every one of you.”

If you are interested in learning more about this project, you can visit their website at expansion.mchpp.org or call (207) 725-2716.


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