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Feed 246 families each week at Neighbors' Pantry in Sydney
Help keep a free food pantry open for families and seniors in Sydney.
🇨🇦 Nova Scotia, Canada3,502 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Thursday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 15 families, and now we feed 246 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 48% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Sydney market and keep every receipt.
Each $30 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $2,550 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $2,100
• Baby formula and diapers: $320
• Refrigeration and electricity: $130
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- Yinka Emeka Akinwale 🇳🇬 · $100
- Liliana A. Booker 🇬🇧 · $5
“Wish I could do more. Hope the December deadline works out. - Newcastle upon Tyne”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
“Stay strong. Please keep us posted. - Portland”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
- Isabella Russell 🇨🇦 · $5
- Haider Mubashir Farooqi 🇵🇰 · $10
- Chiamaka Joy Jimoh 🇳🇬 · $25
“Take care of yourselves. Saw your post and had to give. - Nnewi”
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $10
- Gareth C. Steyn 🇿🇦 · $100
- Kiên Tuấn Luong 🇻🇳 · $100
- Daniela J. Ochoa 🇪🇸 · $25
- Victoria J. Hughes 🇬🇧 · $5
“Thought of Lily all day after reading this. - Belfast”
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- Dipu Tanvir Rahman 🇬🇧 · $15
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- Natnael Mulugeta Regassa 🇪🇹 · $50
“You got this. My colleague told me about this one. - Jimma”
- Mohammed Ziad Zerrouki 🇪🇬 · $75
“Wishing you the best. Thought of Lily all day after reading this. - Giza”
- Alok K. Nanda 🇮🇳 · $46
- Enrique Medina 🇲🇽 · $20
- Melanie George 🇺🇸 · $5
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Wishing you the best, Lily. Hope this works out for you. Blessings.
stay strong. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My sister had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Blessings.
Wishing you peace, Lily. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
thanks for sharing this. Gave what I could, wish it was more. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Thinking of Sydney
Sending good thoughts, Lily. More neighborhoods should do this. Please keep us posted
Wishing you peace, Lily. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'm in customer support myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you
Wishing you peace. This could happen to any of us. I went through something like this 10 years ago and strangers helped me out. All the best.
Keep going, Lily. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Sydney.
Sending love. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I hope December is when things finally get easier.
Best of luck, Lily. Your post was clear and honest. All the best
Hope things get better soon, Lily. Your post was clear and honest. We're a small family in Scranton but we're thinking of you. Thinking of Sydney.
thinking of you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. After 11 years in teaching I know how hard it's to ask for anything.
rooting for you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Rabat
Hang in there, Lily. Hope this works out for you. I went through something like this 2 years ago and strangers helped me out!
a colleague of mine might know someone for this in Nova Scotia. I'll ask around and let you know