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Feed 266 families each week at Bread & Beans Kitchen in Paris

Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in Paris.

🇫🇷 Paris, Île-de-France, France4,749 views
Sylvie Justine Rolland
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Paris
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Friday from the back of a community center. We started with 11 families, and now we feed 266 each week. Donations have dropped by about 42% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week. We rely on volunteers - 16 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Paris market and keep every receipt. Each $20 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $2,600 goes: • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $840 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $1,200 • Baby formula and diapers: $430 • Refrigeration and electricity: $130 Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself. - Sylvie
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Updates from Sylvie

  1. We're at 50% thanks to 44 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.

  2. Quick update: $1,328 raised so far (51%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. Good news. Because of your gifts ($511 in total) I made the first payment toward fresh vegetables and fruit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

Donations

RecentTop gifts
  • Danjuma Tunde Okafor 🇳🇬 · $250
  • Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $200
  • Zubair Omer Jatoi 🇵🇰 · $100
  • Gabriella Sorrentino 🇮🇹 · $100

    “Hang in there. Been where you're, it gets better. - Padua”

  • Layla Malak Badawi 🇪🇬 · $100
  • Shankar B. Somayajula 🇮🇳 · $100
  • Matthew B. Ayala 🇺🇸 · $75
  • Paulo Roberto Souza 🇧🇷 · $75
  • Maria Larissa Figueiredo 🇧🇷 · $75

    “Keep your head up. Only $75 but hope it helps. - Campinas”

  • Óscar G. Castillo 🇨🇴 · $75

    “Hope it all works out. My neighbor told me about this one. - Palmira”

  • Sri Ika Saputra 🇮🇩 · $75

    “Rooting for you. Thought of Sylvie all day after reading this. - Semarang”

  • Maverick P. Mendoza 🇨🇦 · $75
  • Talha Arslan Lashari 🇵🇰 · $64.50
  • Alejandra Paloma Quintero 🇦🇷 · $50.50
  • Joyce L. Merritt 🇺🇸 · $50
  • Suresh Ashok Magar 🇳🇵 · $50
  • Inés M. Aguilar 🇺🇸 · $50
  • Kirit F. Kelkar 🇮🇳 · $50
  • Leandro André Monteiro 🇧🇷 · $50

    “Every little bit. Only $50 but hope it helps. - Campinas”

  • Paulette W. Gayle 🇯🇲 · $50

    “Rooting for you. - Montego Bay”

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  • Alexandre Remy

    good luck, Sylvie. Looking forward to the next update.

    • Eugene Willis

      Take care, Sylvie. Hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best.

      • Teodora Bianca Dragomir

        wishing you peace. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Greetings from Sydney.

        $3,267.50 raised of $2,600

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