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Help Scarlett keep the Open Hands Pantry pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Glasgow.
🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom5,575 views
Since 2019, our volunteer team has run Open Hands Pantry every Monday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 22 families, and now we feed 187 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 57% this winter, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 18 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Glasgow market and keep every receipt.
Each $35 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 $3,450 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,750
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,250
• Baby formula and diapers: $260
• Refrigeration and electricity: $190
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Scarlett
Updates from Scarlett
Good news. Because of your gifts ($2,042 in total) we've started the first stage. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Iván N. Morales 🇲🇽 · $25
- Leo F. Dela Cruz 🇵🇭 · $100
“Every little bit. Thought of Scarlett all day after reading this. - Manila”
- Divya B. Bedi 🇬🇧 · $25
“Thought of Scarlett all day after reading this. - Manchester”
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $5
- Oliver Griffin 🇨🇦 · $100
- Teresita Santos 🇵🇭 · $10
- Kavita N. Maurya 🇮🇳 · $50
- Ayaka Sachiko Fujimoto 🇯🇵 · $100
“All the best. From Kitakyushu with love. - Kitakyushu”
- Cora J. Moore 🇺🇸 · $50
- Henry G. Jensen 🇬🇧 · $50
“Thought of Scarlett all day after reading this. - Birmingham”
- Kamau Salim Kimaro 🇺🇬 · $50
- Madeline T. Stevens 🇺🇸 · $10
- Dieter Jan Weiß 🇩🇪 · $20
- Chioma Joy Olawale 🇳🇬 · $20
- Sumaiya Tithi Parvez 🇧🇩 · $10
- Daan Jan Bosman 🇳🇱 · $100
- Adrián T. Peña 🇦🇷 · $100
- Nour Khadija Abbas 🇲🇦 · $10
“Hang in there. Small amount but sent with love. - Fez”
- Vino Candra Halim 🇮🇩 · $5
- Dinda Rani Gozali 🇮🇩 · $200
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sending good thoughts, Scarlett. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust
Hope things get better soon, Scarlett. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. After 22 years in nursing I know how hard it is to ask for anything. Thinking of Glasgow.
Thanks for sharing this, Scarlett. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Thinking of Glasgow
Thinking of you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. After 7 years in hospitality I know how hard it's to ask for anything!
Good luck, Scarlett. Hope this works out for you. Take care.
you're not alone. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Birmingham but we're thinking of you. Thinking of Glasgow.
Sending strength, Scarlett. Hope you get there.
praying for you. Your post was clear and honest. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Love from Gatineau.
hope it all works out. I hope things turn around soon. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. All the best.