Founded in 1980 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1992, Bread of Life brings together over 500 volunteers from our 37 partner organizations and the community at large to offer free food to hungry, homeless, and isolated people. Services include evening meals held four nights a week in Malden; food pantries serving residents of Malden, Everett, Medford, Melrose, Saugus, Stoneham, Reading, N. Reading, Wakefield and Winchester; grocery delivery to senior citizens in public housing in Malden, Everett, Melrose, Medford and Wakefield; and food delivery to homeless families sheltered in local motels. BOL provides over 1,030,000 meals a year for local families who are low-income, unemployed, homeless or living on retirement or disability fixed incomes. BOL is consistently one of the top purchasers and distributors of food in the Greater Boston Food Bank network of agencies and is classed in the highest tier: Strategic Partner.
