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Help Adeline keep the the Second Helping pantry stocked

Help keep a free food pantry open for families and seniors in London.

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Adeline Yates
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Since 2019, our volunteer team has run the Second Helping every Monday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 19 families, and now we feed 87 each week. Donations have dropped by about 42% this school holidays, 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 London market and keep every receipt. Each $45 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $1,400 goes: • Baby formula and diapers: $530 • Refrigeration and electricity: $240 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $630 Every share and every dollar helps. - Adeline

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  • thanks for sharing this, Adeline. Hope this works out for you.

    • thinking of you and your family, Adeline. Hope this works out for you. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. All the best

      • Sending good thoughts, Adeline. More neighborhoods should do this. All the best.

        • Sending good thoughts, Adeline. I hope things turn around soon.

          • Autumn C. McDanielPhoto verified

            keep going, Adeline. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Don't give up.

            • thanks for sharing this, Adeline. Shared this with my family. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day

              • Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Put this on a community board in Thane this morning. Thinking of London

                • Good luck. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.

                  • So sorry you're going through this, Adeline. Hope you get there. After 9 years in logistics I know how hard it's to ask for anything

                    • this could happen to any of us. Thinking of London

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