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Feed 281 families each week at Community Pantry in Belo Horizonte

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

🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil1,667 views
Rafaela Luciana Fernandes
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Belo Horizonte
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Sunday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 24 families, and now we feed 281 each week. Donations have dropped by about 37% 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 Belo Horizonte market and keep every receipt. Each $15 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $800 goes: • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $470 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $140 • Baby formula and diapers: $110 • Refrigeration and electricity: $80 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
#food-pantry#hunger#volunteer-led#food

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  • Anonymous 🇪🇬 · $25

    “Thought of Rafaela all day after reading this. - Shubra”

  • Luca L. Schultz 🇺🇸 · $20
  • Gijs Huisman 🇳🇱 · $10

    “Hope this helps. I'm in Breda, thinking of you. - Breda”

  • Zoey E. Cook 🇺🇸 · $74.50

    “Get well soon. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Lowell”

  • Mackenzie P. Callahan 🇺🇸 · $100

    “Hope this helps. Been where you're, it gets better. - Dayton”

  • Nicolás E. Cordero 🇲🇽 · $50

    “Be well. Thought of Rafaela all day after reading this. - Monterrey”

  • Mary Zawadi Kioko 🇰🇪 · $5
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  • Eleni Paraskevi Georgiou 🇬🇷 · $25

    “Hope things get better. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Piraeus”

  • Cameron C. Vaughn 🇺🇸 · $11

    “Thought of Rafaela all day after reading this. - Tallahassee”

  • Bruno Arthur Cardoso 🇧🇷 · $50

    “God bless. My brother told me about this one. - Belém”

  • Oisin P. Murphy 🇮🇪 · $10
  • Damilola Bola Tijani 🇳🇬 · $18.50

    “Happy to help. My mother told me about this one. - Epe”

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  • Kiara F. Anand 🇮🇳 · $5
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  • Frank Bernd Peters

    Thinking of you, Rafaela. Looking forward to the next update. I'll check back for the next update. Blessings.

    • Fang Lu

      You're not alone, Rafaela. I hope things turn around soon.

      • Patience Mabel Darko

        Sending good thoughts. I hope things turn around soon. Sent it to 13 people at work

        • Yevhen Dmitry Marchenko

          Your post was clear and honest. My neighbor in Calamba donated after I showed her your page

          • Cristian N. Benítez

            Thinking of you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Dhaka.

            • Denise L. Long

              Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Thinking of Belo Horizonte.

              • Aaliyah S. Herrera

                Best of luck. Looking forward to the next update. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Love from Bogor.

                • Manfred Felix Wagner

                  Best of luck, Rafaela. Great idea, hope you get there.

                  • Shreya Parmar

                    you're not alone, Rafaela. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.

                    • Silvia G. Cortés

                      Thinking of you and your family, Rafaela. I hope things turn around soon. Take care!

                      • Aishwarya Naidu

                        Hang in there, Rafaela. Great idea, hope you get there. I'll check back for the next update.

                        • Samantha J. Cohen

                          Best of luck. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Tema

                          • Sibel Rabia Tekin

                            Praying for you, Rafaela. Shared it with a few friends.

                            • Divya C. Kushwaha

                              Wishing you the best. Hope this works out for you. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Belo Horizonte.

                              • Teresa Norwood

                                Take care. Hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Dar es Salaam this morning. All the best

                                • Simone Juliana Pinto

                                  Thanks for sharing this, Rafaela. Hope this works out for you. I'll check back for the next update. Greetings from Warangal.

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