It’s been almost one year since the Sharing and Caring food pantry opened in downtown White River Junction. Hannah Cerasoli started the pantry back in March at the beginning of the pandemic.It began with an idea and the pandemic pushed it to become a reality. At first, they started with a few totes. Over the summer, she started researching and found a refrigerator to start the pantry outside the White River Junction United Methodist Church.”It’s just more than I could have even imagined. It really does look like what I had in my mind, and I’m so proud that we have that refrigerator in there because it makes such a huge difference and it has opened the door for so many other opportunities to provide prepared foods for (people) in our community that are accessing it,” said Cerasoli.Hannah said sometimes people leave behind thank you notes. It reminds her that the pantry is really making a difference. “It was like ‘wow, this is really something. This is changing people’s lives. This is really helping people,’ and I just— That still blows my mind. I just can’t believe people, like I drive up and see the pantry and I’m like ‘wow, it’s really a thing,’” said Cerasoli.She believes the pantry is helping more than 100 families a week. If you’d like to help, you can reach out to Hannah on the White River Junction United Methodist Church Facebook page.
It’s been almost one year since the Sharing and Caring food pantry opened in downtown White River Junction. Hannah Cerasoli started the pantry back in March at the beginning of the pandemic.
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It began with an idea and the pandemic pushed it to become a reality. At first, they started with a few totes. Over the summer, she started researching and found a refrigerator to start the pantry outside the White River Junction United Methodist Church.
“It’s just more than I could have even imagined. It really does look like what I had in my mind, and I’m so proud that we have that refrigerator in there because it makes such a huge difference and it has opened the door for so many other opportunities to provide prepared foods for (people) in our community that are accessing it,” said Cerasoli.
Hannah said sometimes people leave behind thank you notes. It reminds her that the pantry is really making a difference.
“It was like ‘wow, this is really something. This is changing people’s lives. This is really helping people,’ and I just— That still blows my mind. I just can’t believe people, like I drive up and see the pantry and I’m like ‘wow, it’s really a thing,’” said Cerasoli.
She believes the pantry is helping more than 100 families a week. If you’d like to help, you can reach out to Hannah on the White River Junction United Methodist Church Facebook page.
