In today's "Conversation Connecticut," News 12's Rebecca Surran welcomes Michael Donoghue, executive director of Catholic Charities of Fairfield County.

Donoghue says they are seeing an unprecedented demand at their food pantries and soup kitchens, with lines going around the block an hour before they open.

He says they normally serve about 30 to 40 families a day at the Thomas Merton food pantry but says they are now serving over 100 families per day. He says 83% of people who receive SNAP benefits are elderly, children or non-elderly with disabilities.

Donoghue says monetary donations are desperately needed.