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Weekly meals for families and seniors in Mandurah
Walter runs a volunteer pantry feeding 209 families; this fund restocks shelves for the school holidays.
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Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a school canteen. We started with 13 families, and now we feed 209 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 37% this school holidays, 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 Mandurah market and keep every receipt.
Each $45 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 $2,350 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $630
• Baby formula and diapers: $540
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,180
Thank you so much.
- Walter
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Thinking of you and your family, Walter. Hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Sydney this morning.
sending strength, Walter. Looking forward to the next update. Sent it to 29 people at work. Thinking of Mandurah
Thinking of you and your family. More neighborhoods should do this. I'm in teaching myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless.
Hope it all works out, Walter. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.
good luck. Hope you get there. Love from Newcastle upon Tyne.
thinking of you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Blessings
hope things get better soon. More neighborhoods should do this. Wish I lived closer to Wrocław so I could bring a meal
Hope things get better soon, Walter. Shared this with my family. I hope November is when things finally get easier. Love from Málaga.
Wishing you the best, Walter. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My husband and I read this together. Take care
sending good thoughts, Walter. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Nagpur