“I wanted an easy way to see and update where fridges were and thought other people might also find it useful,” she explains. Photography by Aaron Salsbury.Īlyssa, a West Philly resident who asked to have her last name withheld, created a Google Maps database to highlight all of the Philly fridges. Mama-Tee’s bright yellow community fridges were the first to pop up in Philly. Since July 2020, when the first fridge was established in Philly, the mutual aid trend has swept through the city, culminating in the establishment of 24 total community fridges. The food is free to all.Īt that time, there were only 11 fridges citywide, but four months later, the number of fridges has nearly doubled. In October 2020, Grid released an introduction to community fridges, a mutual aid concept where a refrigerator is placed in a public space and stocked by organizers and the community at large for the benefit of those in need.
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