⁍ Mandy Stewart started the Love Your Neighbor Ministries after seeing her neighbors going without food and other necessities amid the coronavirus pandemic.
⁍ Now a simple wooden cabinet she calls the ‘blessing box’ is providing much needed help for her community.
⁍ Stewart, 40, a mother of five, went online and saw other communities putting pantry cabinets out in public, but she knew there weren’t any near her home in Lula, Georgia.

– When Mandy Stewart saw how her neighbors in Lula, Ga., were struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, she decided to do something about it. The mother of five built a “blessing box” in which people can drop off food, toiletries, and other necessities, and she posted about it on Facebook, CNN reports. “I love to coupon and find deals, and I actually got a stockpile for my family and I thought, ‘How could I use this?'” she says. “Me and my husband are not carpenters by no means, but we built this little box.” The response has been overwhelming: “All day that day, there was nothing but people from the local area dropping off to fill that box. And it has not stopped,” says her friend Amanda Browning, who also lives in Lula and volunteers at her restaurant, Amanda’s Farm to Fork. “Seeing the kids come without mom and dad, walk up to the blessing box … It just makes me feel good knowing that it’s there 24/7. Those kids can go to it anytime they need something.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/business/bunkers-new-zealand-intl-hnk/index.html