For the last few months, a team of Muslim Care members has been working on establishing a foodshelf. By the grace of Allah, we hope to open this facility at Abu Bakr Islamic Center very soon. We recently conducted a survey at the Abu Bakr Islamic Convention held at the beginning of September to determine the need for this service - we are still compiling the data, but we are convinced that this foodshelf has the potential to benefit many needy people,  inshaAllah.

Listed below are some of the steps we've taken so far:

1. We have a core team of 3 brothers and 3 sisters working on the project
   
2. We contacted Second Harvest, one of the major food banks that supplies local foodshelfs, and are working on fulfilling the requirements to become eligible to receive heavily discounted food from the food banks.  It costs about 17 cents a pound for anything we buy from them. (They don't charge for food,  only for transportation and handling)
3. While we will start at Masjid Abu Bakr, we hope to spread out to all other major masajid inshaAllah. Our intended approach is to establish a foodshelf in each of the big mosques in the Twin Cities, go through the process of starting it up, train the local masjid people and hand it over to the masjid administration
   

Please stay tuned for more updates on this project and make dua for its success.