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Help Maryna keep the the Thursday Table pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine544 views
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run the Thursday Table every Sunday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 23 families, and now we feed 66 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 55% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 12 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Kyiv market and keep every receipt.
Each $10 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 $500 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $165
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $140
• Baby formula and diapers: $100
• Refrigeration and electricity: $95
Thanks for reading all this.
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Keep going. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Greetings from Paris.
How is Maryna doing now?
rooting for you, Maryna. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Maryna?
Thank you. If you're in Kyiv I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Thanks for looking so closely.
Wishing you peace, Maryna. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Love from Bhopal
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Maryna
Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale) is $165 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Good question.
Thinking of you, Maryna. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too
Hang in there, Maryna. Great idea, hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless.
Stay strong, Maryna. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Don't give up!
so sorry you're going through this, Maryna. More neighborhoods should do this. God bless
You're not alone. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings.
Best of luck, Maryna. This could happen to any of us. I'm in construction myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless.