The Amherst Survival Center welcomes everyone to enjoy our Hot Lunch, Fresh Food Distribution, Free Medical Clinic, Free Store--and our Community Center/Volunteer Program. You will find us open: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 am to 3 pm, except Thursdays when we stay open until 7 pm.  Free Hot Lunch is served from noon to 1 pm, prepared by volunteers in our kitchen. We are closed Wednesdays. 

Our Fresh Food Distribution--vegetables, fruit and fresh baked goods – is available to everyone from 11 am  to 1 pm on our days open. Our Food Pantry —stocked with canned goods, meats and other perishables---is open to those who come to us from the following list of towns:  Amherst, Belchertown, Deerfield, Granby, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury, South Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately. Read more about our programs and services.

Free Health Clinic

May 30, 2011

Our FREE MEDICAL CLINIC provides basic medical services on Thursday evenings.

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Help Stamp Out Hunger on May 14th!

May 4, 2011

Join millions of Americans to help Stamp Out Hunger on May 14th, without even having to leave your home!

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Free Health Clinic Mondays and Thursdays

March 21, 2011

Amherst Survival Center Free Clinic Welcomes New Physician The Amherst Survival Center Free Clinic will now hold hours weekly on Mondays from 12-1, in addition to Thursday evenings from 5-6, thanks to the addition of Doctor Robert Abrams of South Hadley to the Center’s volunteer corps of providers. “Part of being a doctor is trying [...]

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Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with us!

January 28, 2011

On Tuesday January 15th we will be celebrating the Year of the Rabbit here at the ASC. Join us for a special lunch followed by a workshop led by Hwei Ling Greeney who will teach us how to make egg roll from 1:30-3.

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