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Weekly meals for families and seniors in Newcastle upon Tyne
Luca runs a volunteer pantry feeding 366 families; this fund restocks shelves for the school holidays.
🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom4,712 views
Since 2019, our volunteer team has run the Second Helping every Tuesday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 25 families, and now we feed 366 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 57% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 8 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 $2,700 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,500
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $560
• Baby formula and diapers: $470
• Refrigeration and electricity: $170
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Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'll check back for the next update. Greetings from Accra
Sending good thoughts, Luca. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.
Best of luck, Luca. Hope this works out for you. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. God bless.
so sorry you're going through this, Luca. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from Ikeja
Hang in there. Hope you get there. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Greetings from Los Angeles.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Put this on a community board in Duisburg this morning.
Rooting for you, Luca. Hope this works out for you
wishing you peace, Luca. Great idea, hope you get there.
Thinking of you and your family, Luca. Shared it with a few friends. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. God bless