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Feed 64 families each week at the Thursday Table in Atlanta

Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in Atlanta.

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Teresa Valdez
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Atlanta
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run the Thursday Table every Monday from the back of the parish hall. We started with 23 families, and now we feed 64 each week. Donations have dropped by about 43% this summer, 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 Atlanta market and keep every receipt. Each $30 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 $2,750 goes: • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $670 • Baby formula and diapers: $440 • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,640 Thanks for reading all this. - Teresa

Updates from Teresa

  1. Small update. $1,964 so far, we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

  2. We're at 58% thanks to 39 of you. I made the first payment toward rice, beans, flour and oil. More news soon.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 35% now ($964). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.

  • Abril T. Treviño 🇨🇴 · $20

    “Hope you get the rest soon. - Barranquilla”

  • Marcelo Figueiredo 🇧🇷 · $20

    “Hope things get better! - Santos”

  • Sébastien Jules Pierre 🇫🇷 · $10

    “Blessings. Hope the October deadline works out. - Saint-Denis”

  • Jyoti T. Mittal 🇮🇳 · $5

    “Keep your head up. From Nagpur with love.”

  • Jigna A. Ranade 🇮🇳 · $5
  • Saki Kumiko Nakamura 🇯🇵 · $5
  • Sunil S. Sharma 🇮🇳 · $20
  • Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $10
  • Dalia Zahra Belkacem 🇪🇬 · $21
  • Anonymous 🇹🇭 · $200

    “Thinking of you. Hope you get the rest soon. - Phuket”

  • Anonymous 🇹🇭 · $20

    “Take care of yourselves. I'm in Phuket, thinking of you. - Phuket”

  • Rafaela Elaine Paiva 🇧🇷 · $60.50
  • Dinesh S. Oberoi 🇮🇳 · $50
  • Nimal Nalin Jayasuriya 🇱🇰 · $100
  • Greta Lovisa Mattsson 🇸🇪 · $10
  • Manee Rungnapa Yodrak 🇹🇭 · $20
  • Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $25.50

    “This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Santarém”

  • Puja Rahima Majumder 🇮🇳 · $10
  • Filippo Simone Costantini 🇮🇹 · $25
  • Ramesh R. Kushwaha 🇮🇳 · $100

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  • Best of luck. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Zaporizhzhia!

    • Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Atlanta

      • Teresa ValdezOwnerAnswerID verified

        Thank you. If you're in Atlanta I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. It helps to be asked.

    • Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Put this on a community board in Duisburg this morning. Blessings.

      • Sending love. It takes guts to ask. Well done. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Riverside.

        • Gave what I could, wish it was more. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Düsseldorf.

          • Great idea, hope you get there. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. God bless.

            • Best of luck, Teresa. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Greetings from Birmingham.

              • great idea, hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.

                • Good luck, Teresa. Shared it with a few friends. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best

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