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Feed 106 families each week at Bread & Beans Kitchen in Vancouver
The Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry in Vancouver is running low just as demand rises; $3,000 will stock it for 10 weeks.
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Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Saturday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 30 families, and now we feed 106 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 58% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Vancouver market and keep every receipt.
Each $55 feeds a family of four for a week.
I'll post the weekly shopping receipts and a photo of the shelves each Sunday.
Where the $3,000 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,100
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,750
• Refrigeration and electricity: $150
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Mason
Updates from Mason
We're at 3% thanks to 3 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
- Héctor H. Núñez 🇨🇴 · $70
“Happy to help. - Palmira”
- Armando A. Pérez 🇲🇽 · $50
- Rainer Stefan Kaiser 🇩🇪 · $44
- Mizanur Masud Sheikh 🇧🇩 · $30
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $25
“Good luck. Gave what I could this week. - Badagry”
- Dorota Beata Zakrzewski 🇵🇱 · $25
- Hamza Waseem Siddiqui 🇵🇰 · $10
“Praying for you. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Abbottabad”
- Amaya Kavindi Perera 🇱🇰 · $10
“Best of luck. Thought of Mason all day after reading this.”
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rooting for you, Mason. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless.
Hope things get better soon, Mason. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Love from Los Angeles.
Hang in there. Gave what I could, wish it was more. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Thinking of you, Mason. More neighborhoods should do this. I went through something like this 4 years ago and strangers helped me out