Country music star Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley opened up a free grocery store called “The Store” earlier this month in Nashville, Tennessee to support needy families, Fox8 reports.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Paisley announced their plans to deliver a week’s worth of groceries to seniors in the area on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Tennessean reports the delivery efforts will all be run by local volunteers.
The Store is located at Belmont University, Paisley’s alma mater, and allows people in the area to receive free or dramatically discounted food. Originally, the Paisley’s built the store to help fight gentrification in the area and help people struggling financially in the area become more self-sufficient. Eventually the Paisleys hope to expand the Store to offer job training, cooking and nutrition classes as well as free groceries, CBS reports.
CNN reports that the Store has been particularly needed in the Nashville area, as Williams-Paisley shared at the Store’s groundbreaking that one in seven people and one in five children in Nashville are victims of food insecurity. According to CNN, the store is also maintaining regular business hours and discounts for those who are able to leave their house to shop, Paisley said in the Instagram announcement.