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Feed 136 families each week at Neighbors' Pantry in Nairobi
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Nairobi.
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Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Thursday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 25 families, and now we feed 136 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 39% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 13 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Nairobi market and keep every receipt.
Each $5 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $400 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $125
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $150
• Baby formula and diapers: $95
• Refrigeration and electricity: $30
Thank you for reading my story.
- Faith
Updates from Faith
Wanted to say thank you properly. 62% funded and I made the first payment toward refrigeration and electricity.
Small update. $39 so far, the plan for rice, beans, flour and oil is now scheduled.
We're at 6% thanks to 2 of you. I made the first payment toward refrigeration and electricity. More news soon.
- Sergio Benedetti 🇮🇹 · $50
- Ananya P. Mohan 🇮🇳 · $10
- Anonymous 🇰🇷 · $20
“Thinking of you. Hope the December deadline works out. - Daegu”
- Yana Nikitin 🇺🇦 · $180
“Be well. Thought of Faith all day after reading this. - Dnipro”
- Ghassan Kamal Abdallah 🇲🇦 · $14
- Anonymous 🇿🇦 · $10
- Shivam C. Anand 🇮🇳 · $15
“You got this. Hope the December deadline works out. - Saket”
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So sorry you're going through this. Great idea, hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Take care
Rooting for you, Faith. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Love from Toledo.
Good luck, Faith. Shared it with a few friends. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. All the best.
Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. God bless.
Stay strong, Faith. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Greetings from São Paulo.
Wishing you peace, Faith. More neighborhoods should do this. Love from Rotterdam.
hang in there. Hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Nashik this morning.
Thanks for sharing this, Faith. Looking forward to the next update. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.
reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Put this on a community board in Islamabad this morning.
Thinking of you. Shared it with a few friends. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Nairobi!
Keep going, Faith. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My husband and I read this together. Take care.
Hope it all works out, Faith. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Greetings from Gazipur.