The Pilsen Food Pantry will now have a new home, purchasing a two-story building at Ashland Ave. and 21st St, allowing the pantry to grow and better serve thousands of Chicagoans who rely on it. LatinoVoicesWTTW
“Primarily, we are operating, known as a food pantry, we currently serve about 2,000 families a month,” said pantry manager Steve Wiley. “But in addition to that, we operate a clothing thrift store. We do pro bono physical therapy. We give out donated medical access equipment. We do COVID testing, Narcan distribution, health screening. We do a number of initiatives throughout the year.
“We’ve been trying to purchase the building for a couple of years now, so we have money that we raised already in accounts waiting for this moment,” Wiley said. “We can proceed with a lot of stuff quickly. The money that we’re trying to raise is for specific things that we didn’t know about, things like moving a concrete ramp outside and things like that, sort of unanticipated expenses.
“It’s our own place, it’s our identity, we’re not associated with a church or anybody else,” Wiley said. “People will know it for us and the services that we provide to the community. We don’t have to worry about stepping on the toes of the landlord or anything like that. It is our place that we’re buying outright. So any of these things that we had ideas about doing will actually come to fruition in this space.
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