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Feed 372 families each week at Open Hands Pantry in Mardan

The Open Hands Pantry pantry in Mardan is running low just as demand rises; $400 will stock it for 9 weeks.

🇵🇰 Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan1,166 views
Tayyaba Sumbal Memon
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Mardan
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Open Hands Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 18 families, and now we feed 372 each week. Donations have dropped by about 60% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week. We rely on volunteers - 8 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Mardan market and keep every receipt. Each $5 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $400 goes: • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $260 • Baby formula and diapers: $35 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $105 Thank you so much.
#food-pantry#hunger#volunteer-led#food

Updates from Tayyaba

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($288 in total) the plan for baby formula and diapers is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 14% now ($55). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for baby formula and diapers is now scheduled.

  3. Wanted to say thank you properly. 72% funded and I met with the wholesaler and confirmed the amounts.

Donations

RecentTop gifts
  • Priya F. Mehra 🇮🇳 · $100

    “From my family to yours. Small amount but sent with love. - Bengaluru”

  • Lyudmila Milena Vasiliev 🇷🇺 · $77.50
  • Ramon A. Cruz 🇵🇭 · $50
  • Anonymous 🇺🇦 · $50

    “Keep your head up. I'm in Zaporizhzhia, thinking of you.”

  • Anonymous 🇺🇬 · $50

    “Blessings. Thought of Tayyaba all day after reading this.”

  • Sneha H. Verma 🇺🇸 · $25
  • Sophia G. Stanley 🇬🇧 · $25
  • Leonid Vorobiev 🇷🇺 · $20

    “Keep your head up. Small amount but sent with love. - Yekaterinburg”

  • Orly Ohana 🇮🇱 · $20

    “All the best! - Jerusalem”

  • Andrea Lombardo 🇮🇹 · $20
  • Samira Maryam Bakr 🇪🇬 · $10
  • Dung Thai 🇻🇳 · $10
  • Walter T. Berry 🇺🇸 · $10
  • Valentina Sônia Fonseca 🇧🇷 · $10

    “Praying for you. My cousin told me about this one. - Guarulhos”

  • Serkan Aktaş 🇹🇷 · $5

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  • Joost Van der LindenQuestion

    is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Tayyaba.

    • Tayyaba Sumbal MemonOwnerAnswer

      The list at the bottom is the whole picture. rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale) is the biggest at $260. Fair thing to want to know.

  • Lệ Liên Bui

    Keep going, Tayyaba. This could happen to any of us. It's not much but it's yours

    • Rolando P. Pascual

      Sending love. Hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. God bless.

      • Emi Wada

        projects like this are what make a place worth living in. God bless

        $482.50 raised of $400

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