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Calabash food pantry

Building Healthy Communities

AFRICAN CALABASH

The MCFS food pantry began in 2015 as a response to address the increased food insecurity among immigrant seniors in 2015. Due to increased community food-insecurity needs exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, MCFS began operating as an independent emergency food pantry in March 2020.

 

The Pantry currently serves a minimum of 600 families, adults, children and seniors monthly. Donations can be received on Mondays and Tuesdays from 9am - 4pm at 7016 Terminal Square Suite 4A​​.

 

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The Pantry opens at 11:00am on the First and Third Tuesdays of each month!

Donation Items Needed
Cultural Responsive Food Types:
Wheat Flour, Gram Flour, Maseca Flour, Plantain Fufu Flour, Chick Peas Flour, Sooji Flour (Semolina Flour), Palm Butter, Gari, Corn Meal, Knorr Caldo de Pollo Chicken Seasoning, Red Palm Oil, Green Moong Beans, Crack Wheat, Sardines, Split Peas,
Dry Beans:  
Kidney Beans, Pinto Beans, Navy Beans, Garbanzo Beans, Black Chickpeas, Lentils.
Other Items:
Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Creamer, Senior Briefs (Depends, etc), Feminine products, Body Lotion, Petroleum Jelly, Anti-Perspirant Roll-on, Bath Soap, Toothpaste, Toilet Paper.
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Seniors

In partnership with Philabundance, the Calabash Food Pantry primarily provides boxed food to seniors located in Delaware Counties. We also reach out to seniors in the Philadelphia area. We deliver these boxes to home bound seniors upon request. 

Food Donation

Volunteer Opportunities

  • Spanish Translation

  • Assistance with organizing food and stocking shelves

  • Pantry Day Assistants​

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