Good News! - A New North BR Food Pantry is opening

A free community pantry stocked with food, toiletries and household items opens Monday, Jan. 29, on Lorraine Street in north Baton Rouge.
Underway since last April, the project is a donation to the city by the area’s largest young professionals organization, Forum 225. The pantry is located behind the Delmont Gardens Branch Library and will be open 24/7.

“We have a lot of canned foods, water and tons of hygiene products,” says Forum 225 Service Chair Laine Peterson. “It’s really just an open place for anybody to come and get what they may need.”



To naysayers who suggest an unmonitored pantry might be subject to vandalism, Litt says the opposite is often true when the community is involved.

“What you usually find, especially when you’ve created intentional community partnerships, like with the library, is that people come around in solidarity,” Litt says. “And from what I’ve seen in other projects, if something happens, you usually see the community jump in to help.”


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Naysayer here. How fast until it is first burglarized. Second looted of all fixtures and refrigerators, and third totally destroyed?

You know... like last time. And the time before.

Community fridge targeted by vandals again

Fridge stolen