INDIANAPOLIS — Dimes, quarters, nickels or pennies. Every piece of change equals change for No Questions Asked Food Pantry.
It takes $300 to $500 a week to keep the pantry open. The initiative is one-year strong, but it takes continuous effort to stay stocked up.
To mark the first anniversary, volunteers gathered Sunday at the pantry at the All Souls Unitarian Church on East 56th Street to remember how the pantry got its start. It was an idea born out of wanting to help working people who were slammed by last year's government shutdown.
"This is why do we this," Amber Toombs said. "This is why we are here."
Tooms is the volunteer coordinator for the pantry. Long before she came on board to help No Questions Asked Food Pantry, Toombs discovered just how important food pantries are in any community.
"For me, it was my own need," she said. "I struggled a lot in college, and this is just me wanting to give back."
Out of that need, a passion was born. A want or will, rather, to help others struggling to balance paying bills while trying to put food on the table.
"People depend on the pantry," Toombs said.
She said the work to feed families never stops and she intends to keep going as long as there are those in need.
Click here to find out how to help No Questions Asked Food Pantry.
