By AMANDA CUDA, Updated: 11/22/2008
Terry Wilcox has a lot of stories. Wilcox, is executive director of the Bridgeport Rescue Mission at 1088 Fairfield Avenue, which provides shelters for the region's homeless, as well as multiple food service programs. The mission has a soup kitchen at its headquarters, a kitchen at the women's shelter, and a mobile kitchen, which travels to a different neighborhood in Fairfield County every night dispensing hot meals.
The mission also a food pantry, stocked with items that staff members use to assemble packages for clients. Over time, Wilcox has seen a lot of people with a lot of needs and he's collected a lot of stories. There's the story of the married father with two kids, who works three jobs, yet still relies on the mission to help feed his family. There's the story of the 13-year-old boy who rode his bike to the mission from his home in Stratford, because his mother needed him to pick up food for dinner. But the most devastating story Wilcox has heard lately is a story told in numbers. A year ago, all of the mission's food programs combined served an average of 400 meals a day. Today, they serve anywhere from a thousand to 1,200 meals a day.
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The mission also a food pantry, stocked with items that staff members use to assemble packages for clients. Over time, Wilcox has seen a lot of people with a lot of needs and he's collected a lot of stories. There's the story of the married father with two kids, who works three jobs, yet still relies on the mission to help feed his family. There's the story of the 13-year-old boy who rode his bike to the mission from his home in Stratford, because his mother needed him to pick up food for dinner. But the most devastating story Wilcox has heard lately is a story told in numbers. A year ago, all of the mission's food programs combined served an average of 400 meals a day. Today, they serve anywhere from a thousand to 1,200 meals a day.
Read the rest here.
Visit the BRM website here.
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