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Feed 238 families each week at Community Pantry in São Paulo
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in São Paulo.
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Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a community center. We started with 28 families, and now we feed 238 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 42% this school holidays, 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 São Paulo market and keep every receipt.
Each $10 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $750 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $500
• Refrigeration and electricity: $55
• Baby formula and diapers: $195
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Cláudia
Updates from Cláudia
Good news. Because of your gifts ($198 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Shawn Wang 🇦🇺 · $76
- Elena G. Ávila 🇲🇽 · $75
“You got this. - Zapopan”
- Edilene Carolina Peixoto 🇧🇷 · $50
- Caleb Berry 🇬🇧 · $39
- Su-bin Seo-yeon Ahn 🇺🇸 · $30
- Carlos C. Solís 🇪🇸 · $30
- Marilyn W. Ward 🇬🇧 · $30
- Vincent Lopez 🇫🇷 · $26
“From my family to yours. Thought of Cláudia all day after reading this.”
- Aria B. Thompson 🇦🇺 · $25
- Ryan R. Douglas 🇺🇸 · $25
“Praying for you. From Pittsburgh with love.”
- Okechukwu Uchenna Kalu 🇳🇬 · $20
- Yu Tong Yuan 🇺🇸 · $20
- Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $12
- Anonymous 🇩🇪 · $6
- Esther Aisha Afolabi 🇳🇬 · $5
- Yamini R. Panwar 🇮🇳 · $5
- Mwangi Kariuki Ochieng 🇰🇪 · $5
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You're not alone, Cláudia. This could happen to any of us. God bless.
hope it all works out, Cláudia. More neighborhoods should do this. God bless.
More neighborhoods should do this. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Blessings.
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Agra.
Thinking of you. Great idea, hope you get there. Please keep us posted. Love from Augsburg!