The Grocery and Deliveries team supports food security within Medford and Somerville. We deliver groceries or grocery cards to anyone who needs them, without means-testing or judgment. Food is a basic necessity for everyone, one of many that our capitalist system has failed to provide for many.
Food security is a huge, ongoing problem in Massachusetts: over 100k more households are on SNAP assistance than before the pandemic. Benefits are difficult to access, don't cover essentials like diapers, and are in constant danger of being cut even further.
MAMAS organize and work collectively as a community to meet those needs, modeling as best we can the better world that is not only possible but necessary. Join our mailing list to get regular emails with opportunities to deliver.
<aside> 🛒 We've made over 2100 deliveries since March 2020
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Sweep is a recurring event where we deliver direct grocery aid to our neighbors in Medford and Somerville, with no means-testing or judgment. Mutual aid is more fun together: we gather at Stop and Shop and hand out grocery lists to shop for and grocery cards to deliver.
Our next supermarket sweep is November 12th at 1 PM! If you would like to participate as a deliverer, email [email protected] with the subject line, ‘Help with Sweep’.
If you would like to request a card or groceries, please contact the hotline at (339) 545–1315. We encourage people who would like to receive grocery assistance to help us make deliveries also!
Mutual aid calls us to build power through direct relationships. In our pairings, MAMAS deliverers are in direct contact with their paired neighbors and deliver groceries/ grocery gift cards, or do other small errands like pick up prescriptions. People who have paired find this to be a gratifying aspect of mutual aid, with new relationships and friendships they would not have made otherwise! To be a pair you only need to commit to making reliable deliveries of groceries or grocery cards, and be willing to help MAMAS grow our mutual aid project.
You can set your own schedule for deliveries, and MAMAS will reimburse you monthly for grocery or monetary assistance you give to your pair, based on the size of the pair’s household. If you have the means and would like to contribute your own money toward your pairing, that is great too!
MAMAS are currently supporting 80 households in Medford and Somerville, representing 235 people. You can sponsor a pairing to make sure we always have enough money for reimbursement! If you wish to do so, please email us at [email protected].