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Help Baptiste keep the Neighbors' Pantry pantry stocked
Baptiste runs a volunteer pantry feeding 149 families; this fund restocks shelves for the summer.
🇨🇦 L5G 9L7, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada1,407 views
Since 2019, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Friday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 15 families, and now we feed 149 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 52% this summer, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 15 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Mississauga market and keep every receipt.
Each $55 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $1,500 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $840
• Refrigeration and electricity: $160
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $500
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Baptiste
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- Kumar G. Kamath 🇮🇳 · $5
- Isabel W. Cordero 🇲🇽 · $20
“From my family to yours. From San Nicolás de los Garza with love. - San Nicolás de los Garza”
- Nicolás B. García 🇺🇸 · $25
- Jordan Peterson 🇨🇦 · $10
“From my family to yours. - Burnaby”
- Shu Cao 🇺🇸 · $30
“Sending love. Thought of Baptiste all day after reading this. - San Francisco”
- Anonymous 🇳🇵 · $8
- Madelyn M. Wang 🇬🇧 · $100
- Lincoln M. Harvey 🇺🇸 · $10
- Giovana Larissa Leite 🇧🇷 · $10
- Orville N. Miller 🇯🇲 · $20
- Anna Tetiana Andreev 🇺🇦 · $57
“Good luck. Only $57 but hope it helps. - Zaporizhzhia”
- Irma Yuni Suharto 🇮🇩 · $20
- Fadi Nasser 🇪🇬 · $10
- Young-ja Ji-yeon Jung 🇰🇷 · $100
“Take care of yourselves. My cousin told me about this one. - Seongnam”
- Rachel A. Romero 🇺🇸 · $5
“From my family to yours. Thought of Baptiste all day after reading this. - San Diego”
- Caroline H. Watkins 🇬🇧 · $75
- Terry T. Kelly 🇺🇸 · $10
- Kumar G. Bhat 🇮🇳 · $15
- Weston Joseph 🇺🇸 · $5
- Everly R. Hopkins 🇬🇧 · $75
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Thinking of you. Your post was clear and honest. Sent it to 25 people at work. Greetings from Dallas.
Stay strong, Baptiste. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.
looking forward to the next update. I have a 15 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Take care.