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Feed 154 families each week at Community Pantry in Reading
The Community Pantry pantry in Reading is running low just as demand rises; $2,050 will stock it for 7 weeks.
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Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Thursday from the back of a community center. We started with 20 families, and now we feed 154 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 33% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 11 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Reading market and keep every receipt.
Each $35 feeds a family of four for a week.
I'll post the weekly shopping receipts and a photo of the shelves each Sunday.
Where the $2,050 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $970
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $560
• Baby formula and diapers: $290
• Refrigeration and electricity: $230
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Alice
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Rooting for you, Alice. Great idea, hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Kadıköy this morning.
wishing you peace, Alice. Looking forward to the next update. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust
projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless.
Wishing you the best, Alice. I hope things turn around soon. Love from Port Harcourt.
Hope it all works out, Alice. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. God bless.
thinking of you. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I went through something like this 9 years ago and strangers helped me out