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Feed 67 families each week at Community Pantry in Tokyo
Help keep a free food pantry open for families facing hunger in Tokyo.
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan2,583 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Wednesday from the back of a community center. We started with 24 families, and now we feed 67 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 44% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 6 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Tokyo market and keep every receipt.
Each $25 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $2,300 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $810
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $840
• Baby formula and diapers: $450
• Refrigeration and electricity: $200
I hope life is good to you.
- Goro
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- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $50
- Márcia Larissa Fonseca 🇧🇷 · $5
- Levi Mosley 🇺🇸 · $5
- Sibel Feyza Koç 🇹🇷 · $30
“Happy to help. Thought of Goro all day after reading this. - Bornova”
- Juliette Delphine Marchand 🇲🇦 · $20
“Hope this helps. Thought of Goro all day after reading this. - Rabat”
- Frank Papa Nkrumah 🇬🇭 · $10
- Nitin T. Pawar 🇮🇳 · $10
- Latha P. Murthy 🇮🇳 · $100
- Regina E. Valdez 🇲🇽 · $60.50
- Landon K. Martin 🇬🇧 · $25
“Sending love. Only $25 but hope it helps. - Manchester”
- Beau W. Maldonado 🇺🇸 · $3
“Happy to help. Only $3 but hope it helps. - Los Angeles”
- Pavithra Pai 🇮🇳 · $100
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $50
- Adalynn R. Zimmerman 🇺🇸 · $50
- Renato Manoel Medeiros 🇧🇷 · $50
- Kenta Jiro Nakajima 🇯🇵 · $10
“From my family to yours. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Nagoya”
- Hannah R. Estrada 🇺🇸 · $30
“Be well. Only $30 but hope it helps. - San Diego”
- Kyung-soo Han 🇰🇷 · $30
“Wish I could do more. Please keep us posted. - Suwon”
- Jennifer H. Reed 🇨🇦 · $25
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Hope things get better soon, Goro. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. All the best
Good luck, Goro. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Love from Makati
Wishing you the best, Goro. Hope this works out for you. Thinking of Tokyo.
Keep going, Goro. This could happen to any of us. Put this on a community board in Jakarta Selatan this morning. Thinking of Tokyo
Shared this with my family. After 8 years in customer support I know how hard it's to ask for anything.