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Help Siobhan keep the Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry stocked

Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Kilkenny.

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Siobhan Thompson
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Kilkenny
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Sunday from the back of a community center. We started with 9 families, and now we feed 387 each week. Donations have dropped by about 46% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week. We rely on volunteers - 16 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Kilkenny market and keep every receipt. Each $25 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $3,000 goes: • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $620 • Refrigeration and electricity: $340 • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $2,040 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
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Updates from Siobhan

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($870 in total) I made the first payment toward fresh vegetables and fruit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Small update. $1,220 so far, I made the first payment toward rice, beans, flour and oil.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 64% now ($1,932). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

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    “From my family to yours. Saw your post and had to give. - Mbale”

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    “God bless. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Bologna”

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  • Lily A. Edwards 🇬🇧 · $50

    “Thought of Siobhan all day after reading this. - London”

  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $50

    “Get well soon. My colleague told me about this one. - Vadodara”

  • Adam Alexandre Cousin 🇫🇷 · $43

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  • Duy Thiện Vo

    Rooting for you. Looking forward to the next update. After 29 years in farming I know how hard it's to ask for anything.

    • Mansi M. Kale

      So sorry you're going through this. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Kilkenny

      • Safiatou Safiatou Kouyaté

        Rooting for you, Siobhan. More neighborhoods should do this. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out. Thinking of Kilkenny!

        • Andrea M. Aguilar

          I hope things turn around soon. Love from Yekaterinburg

          • Dinesh P. Prajapati

            keep going, Siobhan. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. God bless!

            • Lata D. Kohli

              hope it all works out, Siobhan. Your post was clear and honest. Don't give up.

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