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The Thursday Table: keep the shelves full this summer
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Atlanta.
🇺🇸 Georgia, United States1,229 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run the Thursday Table every Thursday from the back of a community center. We started with 15 families, and now we feed 291 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 59% this summer, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 19 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Atlanta 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 $3,250 goes:
• Refrigeration and electricity: $135
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,400
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,715
With deep gratitude,
Guadalupe
Updates from Guadalupe
Good news. Because of your gifts ($196 in total) I made the first payment toward fresh vegetables and fruit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Quick update: $71 raised so far (2%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Funmilayo Joy Anyanwu 🇳🇬 · $30
“Happy to help. Only $30 but hope it helps.”
- Anonymous 🇪🇬 · $5
- Consuelo L. Galindo 🇲🇽 · $100
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $100
“Wishing you the best. Thought of Guadalupe all day after reading this.”
- Murugan B. Naidu 🇮🇳 · $25
- Grayson W. McCoy 🇺🇸 · $10
- Anonymous 🇿🇦 · $61
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Any update on how things are going in Atlanta?
Hope this works out for you. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings
Keep going, Guadalupe. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My neighbor in Celaya donated after I showed her your page. Take care.
Hope it all works out, Guadalupe. It takes guts to ask. Well done. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
A colleague of mine might know someone for this in Georgia. I'll ask around and let you know.