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Help Ping keep the Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in Albany.
🇺🇸 Albany, New York, United States2,341 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Wednesday from the back of the parish hall. We started with 20 families, and now we feed 395 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 55% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Albany market and keep every receipt.
Each $35 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $3,900 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,800
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,150
• Baby formula and diapers: $710
• Refrigeration and electricity: $240
I hope life is good to you.
- Ping
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Thinking of you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings.
Rooting for you. Great idea, hope you get there. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Greetings from Hubballi
Keep going, Ping. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.
Take care. Hope you get there. After 25 years in accounting I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Take care.
Sending love. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Take care.