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Feed 380 families each week at Neighbors' Pantry in Mississauga
The Neighbors' Pantry pantry in Mississauga is running low just as demand rises; $2,300 will stock it for 7 weeks.
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada2,114 views
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 15 families, and now we feed 380 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 54% this rainy season, 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 Mississauga market and keep every receipt.
Each $25 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 $2,300 goes:
• Refrigeration and electricity: $140
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,450
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $710
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
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It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Thinking of Mississauga.
More neighborhoods should do this. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Mississauga.
sending love. More neighborhoods should do this. My husband and I read this together.