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Help Amparo keep the Community Pantry pantry stocked

Amparo runs a volunteer pantry feeding 365 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.

🇲🇽 Ciudad de México, Mexico1,142 views
Amparo G. Ortiz
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Iztapalapa
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Thursday from the back of a community center. We started with 14 families, and now we feed 365 each week. Donations have dropped by about 37% this harvest gap, 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 Iztapalapa market and keep every receipt. Each $10 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $1,100 goes: • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $520 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $340 • Baby formula and diapers: $155 • Refrigeration and electricity: $85 Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure. - Amparo
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    “Thought of Amparo all day after reading this. - Johannesburg”

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    “Every little bit. Hope you get the rest soon. - Bacoor”

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    “Thought of Amparo all day after reading this. - London”

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    “Sending love. I'm in Lansing, thinking of you.”

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  • Armando B. Guzmán

    Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I have a 7 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from Mumbai.

    • Macharia Omondi Kimaro

      Rooting for you, Amparo. Your post was clear and honest

      • Maurício Lucas Farias

        sending love, Amparo. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.

        • John Paul H. Reyes

          Sending strength. Shared this with my family. My husband and I read this together

          • Aylin Selin Güneş

            Sending good thoughts, Amparo. More neighborhoods should do this. Put this on a community board in Vigo this morning. Thinking of Iztapalapa!

            • Leul Samuel Regassa

              hope it all works out, Amparo. Hope this works out for you.

              • Tahmina Sultana Ali

                hope things get better soon. This could happen to any of us. Don't give up. God bless

                • Kavitha Warrier

                  Wishing you the best, Amparo. I hope things turn around soon. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double

                  • Parth D. Joshi

                    Hang in there, Amparo. More neighborhoods should do this.

                    • Aaliyah M. Ortega

                      Hang in there. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Greetings from Paris.

                      • Neha D. Nanda

                        gave what I could, wish it was more. I went through something like this 14 years ago and strangers helped me out!

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