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Feed 341 families each week at Bread & Beans Kitchen in San Jose
Cora runs a volunteer pantry feeding 341 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.
🇺🇸 United StatesPosted Oct 1, 20262,401 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Saturday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 29 families, and now we feed 341 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 35% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the San Jose market and keep every receipt.
Each $50 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 $2,800 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $840
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $900
• Baby formula and diapers: $670
• Refrigeration and electricity: $390
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- Cora
Updates from Cora
Thank you all. We're at 11% now ($310). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for rice, beans, flour and oil is now scheduled.
Small update. $475 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
- Rotimi Jide Tijani 🇳🇬 · $75 · 2h ago
- Maxim Osipov 🇷🇺 · $25 · 2h ago
“Thought of Cora all day after reading this. - Novosibirsk”
- Janet Chebet Bakari 🇰🇪 · $5 · 2h ago
- Greyson Ford 🇺🇸 · $20 · 2h ago
- Delphine Caron 🇫🇷 · $20 · 2h ago
“Take care of yourselves. From Saint-Étienne with love. - Saint-Étienne”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25 · 2h ago
- Malak Rahma Habib 🇸🇦 · $10 · 2h ago
- Jade L. Morrison 🇺🇸 · $50 · 2h ago
- Natália Ana Santana 🇧🇷 · $70 · 2h ago
- Anonymous 🇳🇵 · $10 · 2h ago
- Rolando S. Rodriguez 🇵🇭 · $10 · 2h ago
- Jose K. Dizon 🇵🇭 · $20 · 2h ago
“Hope things get better. Hope the December deadline works out. - Davao City”
- Ruth Achieng Kimani 🇹🇿 · $100 · 2h ago
- Patrícia Dantas 🇧🇷 · $10 · 2h ago
- Darshan T. Trivedi 🇮🇳 · $5 · 2h ago
- Matthias Tim Scholz 🇩🇪 · $20 · 2h ago
- John Waweru Musyoka 🇰🇪 · $25 · 2h ago
- Özlem İpek Karakaya 🇹🇷 · $50 · 2h ago
“Hope things get better. Small amount but sent with love. - Bursa”
- Benjamin D. Henry 🇬🇧 · $200 · 2h ago
- Romeo S. Mabini 🇵🇭 · $28 · 2h ago
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Hope this works out for you. I went through something like this 6 years ago and strangers helped me out
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Thinking of San Jose
Keep going, Cora. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.
Shared this with my family. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. God bless.
Sending good thoughts. Shared this with my family. My neighbor in Madrid donated after I showed her your page.