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Weekly meals for families facing hunger in Edmonton
Help keep a free food pantry open for families facing hunger in Edmonton.
🇨🇦 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada1,441 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run the Second Helping every Thursday from the back of a school canteen. We started with 9 families, and now we feed 311 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 57% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 13 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Edmonton market and keep every receipt.
Each $40 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 $1,800 goes:
• Baby formula and diapers: $540
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,050
• Refrigeration and electricity: $210
If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.
- Craig
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- Gustavo Nunes 🇧🇷 · $10
“You got this. From Olinda with love. - Olinda”
- Bushra Bushra Hussain 🇵🇰 · $50
- Henri Nguyen 🇨🇦 · $20
- Jae-hyun Jae-hyun Do 🇰🇷 · $50
“Hang in there. Only $50 but hope it helps. - Seongnam”
- Sunil P. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $181
“Thought of Craig all day after reading this. - Thrissur”
- Afshan Nazia Abbasi 🇵🇰 · $5
- Koen De Groot 🇳🇱 · $25
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Good luck, Craig. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.
Your post was clear and honest. My neighbor in Seoul donated after I showed her your page.
so sorry you're going through this. Hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless
take care, Craig. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Wishing you peace, Craig. Shared it with a few friends. I'll check back for the next update. Blessings
Sending love, Craig. Looking forward to the next update. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.
Keep going, Craig. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Take care.
sending good thoughts. I hope things turn around soon. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Take care.