If the previous post whet your appetite for Lithuania stories, here's another from Nathan and Dawn.
We recently received a generous $200 donation from a friend in Canada, with a request that we use it to purchase supplies for the Salvation Army food bank. With so many people struggling to feed their families these days, the tiny Salvation Army food bank has been stretched by an overwhelming number of appeals for help. So today, armed with two shopping carts, the Salvation Army van, the help of Joakim (a Swedish SA officer who lives here), and a thick wallet, we stormed the aisles of the largest grocery store in town. We tried to purchase things that were most needed at the food bank, and all of us were surprised by how much we were able to keep piling into our carts. Here’s just how far $200 can go:
- 15 loaves of bread
- 20 bottles of vegetable oil
- 20 containers of margarine
- 24 kilograms of sugar
- 20 boxes of tea
- 70 tins of meat
- 20 bags of dried pearl barley
- 90 packets of ramen noodle soup
- 20 bags of macaroni pasta
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