Today we serviced 140 people, (36) families. Due to lack of donations and increase in clientele, Minnie’s West Plano Food Pantry decided to temporarily alter the days that recipients could receive food. Since the day we've opened our doors we've allowed our clients to come once every 14 days, and we're open 5 days a week. That was a year and a half ago. As the word got out about the new food pantry in West Plano our numbers began to increase, and our funding, not so much. As we struggled to keep up with the demands of our community we decided to ask everyone if they would come once every 30 days instead of 14, until our finances would allow us to do otherwise.
In the last two days we noticed a difference, but it wasn't less people to serve. It was 29 more new faces! We thought by minimizing the amount of days our regulars could come it would give us a chance to serve the new people we had attracted so far this month, but that number increased by half in just two days? So much for that plan, but God always comes through!
This week we are receiving two extra food deliveries than what was originally anticipated. And most of the recipients gave a little something back to help out, it wasn't much, but it was enough to encourage our staff. We feel good about what we’re doing here at Minnie’s West Plano Food Pantry, and look forward to creating partnerships that will support us in this cause.
(We are located at 3100 Independence Parkway Ste# 217 Plano, Texas 75075. We are open Tues-Friday 9am-11am, and Saturdays 11am-1Pm. Administrative hours are M-F 8am-4:00pm in Ste 219 972-596-0253.)
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