SPENCER, Mass. - Eric LaFleche is packing up food for delivery. He bought a lot of it himself at the grocery store. 

“Hunger doesn’t take a day off," LaFleche said. 

Eric started what he calls Buying Friends and Families Food back in December. 

“It was kind of an idea to feed five families by the end of 2020 and here I am," LaFleche said. 

So far, he’s made more than 200 deliveries. He’ll tell you helping out is the right thing to do. 

“I’m very fortunate in my life,” LaFleche said. “I’ve never been unemployed and I have a really good job, and I figured with COVID happening and the pandemic setting in, a lot of people are struggling. And if I could do my part and try to help people than I would." 

Most of his stops are in Worcester County, but word has spread beyond the area. 

“I have done 11 US states to date from California to Texas to Florida," LaFleche said. 

Eric said outside New England he uses an online delivery service. Otherwise, he loads his truck and drops off food at the front door. 

“If the situation is warranted, then I have no problem delivering seven days a week," LaFleche said. 

Even on a holiday weekend, in the rain. He doesn’t mind. 

Eric does most of the heavy lifting himself, but he has a lot of support from the Central Massachusetts community. 

“We have so many multi-time donors with food items, with money, it’s unbelievable,” LaFleche said. “It’s too many to even count.”

The number of people in need is big, too. So Eric is trying to turn the program into a nonprofit. 

“That should help the steady flow of money to come in and people can actually deduct it from their taxes," LaFleche said.

He hopes to call it the Arrow Charity.  

“My dad used to own a lot of businesses in Vermont,” LaFleche said. “Every business he owned was Arrow because that's my last name translated to French, so I figured, kind of in his memory in my mom. My mom did a lot of this in Vermont.”

In the meantime, Eric will keep packing his pick up to fight hunger.