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Help Carmen keep the the Harvest Pantry pantry stocked
Carmen runs a volunteer pantry feeding 215 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.
🇺🇸 Texas, United States3,109 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run the Harvest Pantry every Wednesday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 14 families, and now we feed 215 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 60% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 9 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Houston market and keep every receipt.
Each $60 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 $3,750 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $2,150
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $840
• Baby formula and diapers: $480
• Refrigeration and electricity: $280
Glad we found this place.
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- Ricardo Carlos Moreira 🇧🇷 · $30
- Declan C. Alexander 🇳🇿 · $20
“All the best. Saw your post and had to give. - Christchurch”
- Yasir Ahmed Rehman 🇵🇰 · $50
- Abdul Zahid Chowdhury 🇧🇩 · $10
“Hang in there. Thought of Carmen all day after reading this. - Narayanganj”
- Cornelis Wouter De Groot 🇳🇱 · $41.50
- Jorge J. López 🇺🇸 · $25
“Keep your head up. Hope this covers a bit of it. - New Orleans”
- Bella F. Craig 🇺🇸 · $25
“Thought of Carmen all day after reading this. - Glendale”
- Tâm Uyên Ngo 🇦🇺 · $8.50
“Hope it all works out. Hope you get the rest soon. - Adelaide”
- Faith F. Alvarez 🇦🇺 · $20
“Keep your head up. Thought of Carmen all day after reading this.”
- Bambang Imam Lubis 🇮🇩 · $100
- Laxman Subash Dahal 🇳🇵 · $20
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $10
- Hailey G. Stevens 🇬🇧 · $76
- Raúl B. Orozco 🇺🇸 · $25
- Maliha Shahana Chowdhury 🇧🇩 · $39.50
- Mubashir Irfan Javed 🇵🇰 · $10
- Fabiana Giovana Moraes 🇧🇷 · $34
- William W. Sutton 🇺🇸 · $10
- Kayode Obinna Adebayo 🇳🇬 · $75
- Craig J. Burton 🇺🇸 · $11.50
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Stay strong, Carmen. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.