Barnegat Township has entered into a lease agreement with a nonprofit organization that seeks to “break the chains of poverty” by deploying people into specific communities to help meet humanitarian, educational, medical, social and spiritual needs. The township committee introduced an ordinance authorizing the move at a recent meeting.

Deputy Mayor Alfonso Cirulli said Starve Poverty International, currently based in Lacey Township, will take over a portion of the old Pinewood Estates firehouse…