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Feed 378 families each week at Bread & Beans Kitchen in Manukau
Frank runs a volunteer pantry feeding 378 families; this fund restocks shelves for the rainy season.
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand1,766 views
Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Friday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 17 families, and now we feed 378 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 50% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 8 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Manukau market and keep every receipt.
Each $25 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 $2,350 goes:
• Refrigeration and electricity: $230
• Baby formula and diapers: $500
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,620
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
Updates from Frank
Wanted to say thank you properly. 34% funded and the plan for baby formula and diapers is now scheduled. - Frank
- Joseph Arnold 🇺🇸 · $50
- Efthymia Theodora Kyriakou 🇬🇷 · $50
- Runa Tamanna Sen 🇧🇩 · $63
- Alexa P. Ortiz 🇨🇦 · $50
“Thought of Frank all day after reading this. - Sydney”
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $50
“Rooting for you. Thought of Frank all day after reading this. - Ciudad de México”
- Sumon Sumon Hossain 🇮🇳 · $10
- Samuel A. Spencer 🇺🇸 · $25
“Hope things get better. My colleague told me about this one. - New York”
- Gugu N. Chetty 🇿🇦 · $50
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $60
- Babu Sohel Bhuiyan 🇧🇩 · $50
- Waseem Zubair Mirza 🇵🇰 · $25
- Luis Aguilar 🇺🇸 · $100
“Keep your head up. Thought of Frank all day after reading this. - Erie”
- Anonymous 🇪🇬 · $10
- Alyona Veronika Kuzmenko 🇷🇺 · $10
- Dina Lina Nassar 🇸🇦 · $30
“Thinking of you. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Mecca”
- Anonymous 🇫🇷 · $25
- Hannah H. Hall 🇺🇸 · $70
- Prachi H. Kale 🇮🇳 · $25
- Nimra Bisma Mirza 🇵🇰 · $10
- Florence Wangari Kamau 🇰🇪 · $50
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Rooting for you, Frank. Great idea, hope you get there
Sending good thoughts, Frank. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Don't give up. Love from Chicago
Sending love. This could happen to any of us. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out. Take care
Praying for you, Frank. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. It's not much but it's yours. Love from Aurangabad.
Take care. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Greetings from Dayton.
so sorry you're going through this, Frank. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day
Praying for you. Great idea, hope you get there. My neighbor in İzmir donated after I showed her your page
Hang in there, Frank. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I hope November is when things finally get easier.
Best of luck, Frank. Hope you get there. Blessings!
thanks for sharing this, Frank. Hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. God bless.