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Feed 234 families each week at Open Hands Pantry in Campinas
Leonardo runs a volunteer pantry feeding 234 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.
🇧🇷 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil923 views
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Open Hands Pantry every Saturday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 9 families, and now we feed 234 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 34% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 14 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Campinas market and keep every receipt.
Each $15 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 $1,050 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $520
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $310
• Baby formula and diapers: $135
• Refrigeration and electricity: $85
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Leonardo
Updates from Leonardo
Update from Campinas: I met with the wholesaler and confirmed the amounts. We're at 39% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Bhavna H. Mishra 🇮🇳 · $250
“Good luck. Please keep us posted. - Nizamabad”
- Allison P. Mejia 🇬🇧 · $200
- Devi R. Nambiar 🇮🇳 · $100
“Hope things get better. Thought of Leonardo all day after reading this. - Mumbai”
- Anonymous 🇫🇷 · $100
- Ananya L. Goyal 🇮🇳 · $75
- Hussein Saeed Belkacem 🇺🇸 · $50
- Mohit N. Garg 🇮🇳 · $35
- Deborah L. James 🇺🇸 · $30
- Autumn P. Williams 🇺🇸 · $28
- Denis Zakharov 🇺🇦 · $25
- Naoki Koji Ohno 🇯🇵 · $25
- Tejas P. Jain 🇮🇳 · $20
- Uğur Ahmet Acar 🇹🇷 · $20
- Gonzalo H. Vargas 🇺🇸 · $20
“Best of luck. Thought of Leonardo all day after reading this. - Brooklyn”
- Kreesan Pillay 🇿🇦 · $20
- Marcos Davi Andrade 🇧🇷 · $10
- Sundar E. Sundaram 🇮🇳 · $10
“From my family to yours. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Rohini”
- Danjuma Kayode Odukoya 🇳🇬 · $10
- Minato Murata 🇯🇵 · $5
“Every little bit. Hope the July deadline works out. - Tokyo”
- Sultana Maliha Biswas 🇧🇩 · $5
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this could happen to any of us. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Blessings.
Best of luck. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Greetings from Houston.
hope this works out for you. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings.
stay strong, Leonardo. I hope things turn around soon. Sent it to 28 people at work. Love from New Orleans.
More neighborhoods should do this. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
Thinking of you. Shared it with a few friends. Thinking of Campinas.