Today marks the third day of our impactful Children’s Food Support Week. Each day, we’ve been able to provide food support for 66 families and 188 children, all thanks to your generous contributions.

Your support has been instrumental in ensuring these families don’t go to bed hungry. Let’s keep this momentum going until Friday.

Fruit Juice is arriving today; Instant Oatmeal is coming tomorrow,  and we hope that Chicken Noodle Soup will come the day after, followed by Cinnamon Life Cereal and Chicken Ramen to end this particular week, a commitment to help these families caught in hard times. (Above, all of the food that came from the Regional Center today.)

It’s about compassion and empathy, something our country desperately needs. We are sending a message.

Today’s food choice for children is Campbell’s Condensed Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup, 10.5 oz can, Pack of 12, priced at $15.99.

With this donation of $15.99, we can provide most families with a hearty and nutritious dinner, just like the ones grandmothers used to make, ensuring that no child in the pantry goes to bed hungry.

Each can of soup can feed at least two children in a family, which means 24 children get Chicken Noddle Soup with each pack purchased.

I went to the Pantry this morning to see the weekly delivery from the Regional Food Bank for Southeastern New York. Volunteers from here drive an hour or so to pick up the food while other volunteers wait to get it off the truck, record it, and store it in the appropriate places—shelves and refrigerators. It’s hard work, a fraction of the weekly work at a food pantry.

The volunteers say the food coming from the Regional Bank is getting smaller all the time, and today’s supply is smaller than usual. At the same time, more and more families are coming for help with food. The process is complex and physical.

This is before and after the food is sorted and placed on shelves. I have more photos to put up tomorrow, Wednesday. I have yet to meet half of the pantry volunteers.

The bottom line is that the pantry is running low on food; as always, demand is growing, and subsidies are being cut. Families and their children need some support. This, I believe,  is part of the coming Compassion Revolution. The Army Of Good is on the front lines.

We decided to focus on the children this week. This food campaign aims to ensure they have enough to eat today, tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday through the weekend. We hope to cram those backpacks with good food.

Tomorrow’s food for the Feed The Children Campaign: Life Breakfast Cereal, Cinnamon, 13 oz, Boxes 3 Pack, $8.19.

Thanks again for your support and encouragement. Doing good feels good—small acts of great kindness.

To see the Cambridge Pantry’s Full Wish List, go here.