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Help Gustavo keep the Open Hands Pantry pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in São Paulo.
🇧🇷 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil1,033 views
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Open Hands Pantry every Sunday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 25 families, and now we feed 89 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 51% this summer, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 12 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the São Paulo market and keep every receipt.
Each $15 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $1,000 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $320
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $420
• Baby formula and diapers: $210
• Refrigeration and electricity: $50
Thank you so much.
Updates from Gustavo
Quick update: $494 raised so far (49%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Thank you all. We're at 30% now ($295). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
We're at 22% thanks to 4 of you. I met with the wholesaler and confirmed the amounts. More news soon. - Gustavo
- Murilo Fonseca 🇧🇷 · $100
- Jigna T. Kothari 🇮🇳 · $65
“Sending love. Only $65 but hope it helps. - Warangal”
- Ye-jin Ji-woo Nam 🇰🇷 · $50
- Nanami Hina Ikeda 🇯🇵 · $50
- Sadie H. Dean 🇬🇧 · $50
- Musyoka Mussa Njoroge 🇰🇪 · $50
- Omar Rakib Ali 🇧🇩 · $50
- Nuria D. Franco 🇺🇸 · $50
- Violet D. Hayes 🇺🇸 · $45
- Stella E. Payne 🇺🇸 · $33.50
- Fabiana Bruna Ribeiro 🇧🇷 · $25
- Raymond R. Kirby 🇺🇸 · $25
- Jana Theresa Lehmann 🇩🇪 · $25
- Henri Philippe Girard 🇫🇷 · $15
- Caio Anderson Fonseca 🇧🇷 · $10
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Anonymous 🇰🇪 · $5
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Thinking of you and your family, Gustavo. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
rooting for you, Gustavo. Your post was clear and honest. Greetings from São Paulo.
Good luck, Gustavo. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Thinking of São Paulo.