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Help Yiğit keep the the Harvest Pantry pantry stocked
Yiğit runs a volunteer pantry feeding 370 families; this fund restocks shelves for the winter.
🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye2,452 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run the Harvest Pantry every Wednesday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 20 families, and now we feed 370 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 51% this winter, 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 Istanbul market and keep every receipt.
Each $15 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $750 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $450
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $95
• Baby formula and diapers: $130
• Refrigeration and electricity: $75
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Yiğit
Updates from Yiğit
Thank you all. We're at 46% now ($345). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
- Anonymous 🇸🇦 · $50
“Gave what I could this week. - Jeddah”
- Violet Ashworth 🇬🇧 · $50
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $10
- Naledi C. Mahlangu 🇿🇦 · $15
- Osama Yasir Rahman 🇸🇦 · $50
“Every little bit! - Dammam”
- Mia Nina Vogt 🇩🇪 · $25
“God bless. From Berlin with love.”
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $10
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $10
- Ahmed Mazen Lotfy 🇸🇦 · $10
- Ella S. Vargas 🇺🇸 · $100
- Tejaswini S. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $57
- Arthur Francisco Figueiredo 🇧🇷 · $20
- Sophie Sophie Peeters 🇳🇱 · $50
- Anonymous 🇮🇪 · $24
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $61
“You got this. Thought of Yiğit all day after reading this. - Santos”
- Goro Eiji Ando 🇯🇵 · $10
- Taro Matsumoto 🇯🇵 · $20
- Hussain Mubashir Awan 🇵🇰 · $25
“Thought of Yiğit all day after reading this.”
- Akash S. Bedi 🇮🇳 · $5
“Get well soon. Thought of Yiğit all day after reading this.”
- Megan A. Espinoza 🇺🇸 · $25
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Wishing you the best, Yiğit. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from Fort Worth
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Yiğit?
Thank you. If you're in Istanbul I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Good question.
Sending love. It takes guts to ask. Well done. It's not much but it's yours. Love from Ibadan.
Praying for you, Yiğit. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Blessings.
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Yiğit.
Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale) is $450 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Fair thing to want to know.
Keep going, Yiğit. Hope you get there. God bless.
how is Yiğit doing now?
Hope you get there. Thinking of Istanbul
praying for you, Yiğit. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.
Hope things get better soon, Yiğit. I hope things turn around soon. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Greetings from Medina.
Keep going, Yiğit. Hope this works out for you.
Keep going, Yiğit. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't give up. Take care
Thinking of you and your family, Yiğit. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer