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Feed 104 families each week at Community Pantry in Erie
Help keep a free food pantry open for families facing hunger in Erie.
🇺🇸 Erie, Pennsylvania, United States1,727 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a school canteen. We started with 25 families, and now we feed 104 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 52% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 10 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Erie market and keep every receipt.
Each $25 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $3,100 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $640
• Baby formula and diapers: $330
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $2,130
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Maria
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“Best of luck. Gave what I could this week. - Marseille”
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“From my family to yours. From Patna with love.”
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“God bless. I'm in Lviv, thinking of you.”
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“You got this. My father told me about this one. - Zaria”
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so sorry you're going through this, Maria. Shared this with my family. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. Blessings
Rooting for you. This could happen to any of us. My neighbor had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Blessings
So sorry you're going through this, Maria. I hope things turn around soon. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Erie.
so sorry you're going through this. I hope things turn around soon. Don't give up. Take care
Wishing you peace. More neighborhoods should do this. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
Hope it all works out, Maria. Great idea, hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless.
Thinking of you and your family, Maria. Great idea, hope you get there. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Thinking of Erie.
Wishing you the best, Maria. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. God bless.