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Feed 141 families each week at the Second Helping in Machakos
Help keep a free food pantry open for families facing hunger in Machakos.
🇰🇪 Machakos, Machakos, Kenya825 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run the Second Helping every Tuesday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 20 families, and now we feed 141 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 49% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 12 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Machakos market and keep every receipt.
Each $10 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 $500 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $230
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $145
• Baby formula and diapers: $80
• Refrigeration and electricity: $45
With deep gratitude,
Naliaka
Updates from Naliaka
Small update. $190 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
- Nahid Mohammad Dutta 🇮🇳 · $100
- Kylie W. Knight 🇺🇸 · $100
- Isabel W. Pangilinan 🇵🇭 · $75
- Neha A. Sathe 🇮🇳 · $75
- Levi Hatfield 🇺🇸 · $54.50
- Leonardo F. Gutiérrez 🇪🇸 · $50
- Anonymous 🇳🇵 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $30
- Zenaida B. Mabini 🇵🇭 · $25
“Best of luck. Thought of Naliaka all day after reading this.”
- Rakesh D. Bisht 🇮🇳 · $24
- Dustin E. Fields 🇬🇧 · $20
“Thinking of you. Hope the December deadline works out. - Liverpool”
- Christian Oskar Simon 🇩🇪 · $10
“Happy to help. Please keep us posted. - Cologne”
- Lorena Patrícia Marques 🇧🇷 · $10
- Scarlett J. Barnes 🇨🇦 · $6
- Anonymous 🇿🇦 · $5
- Sophie P. Harvey 🇦🇺 · $5
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Praying for you. More neighborhoods should do this. Take care!
Praying for you, Naliaka. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.
Keep going. Your post was clear and honest. We're a small family in Kraków but we're thinking of you.
Sending love, Naliaka. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Mumbai
A colleague of mine might know someone for this in Machakos. I'll ask around and let you know.