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Help Haile keep the Neighbors' Pantry pantry stocked
Haile runs a volunteer pantry feeding 131 families; this fund restocks shelves for the school holidays.
🇪🇹 Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia1,191 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Tuesday from the back of a community center. We started with 8 families, and now we feed 131 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 58% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 18 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Mekelle market and keep every receipt.
Each $5 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 $300 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $120
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $65
• Baby formula and diapers: $75
• Refrigeration and electricity: $40
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Haile
Updates from Haile
Quick update: $40 raised so far (13%). I met with the wholesaler and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Update from Mekelle: the plan for refrigeration and electricity is now scheduled. We're at 8% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $43.50
- Bruno Davi Bezerra 🇧🇷 · $25
- Marcos K. Cruz 🇺🇸 · $15
“From my family to yours. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Akron”
- Rocío K. Zamora 🇪🇸 · $15
- Anonymous 🇮🇹 · $10
“Good luck. I'm in Latina, thinking of you.”
- Rowan Curtis 🇺🇸 · $10
“Hope it all works out. Thought of Haile all day after reading this.”
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Rooting for you. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I went through something like this 2 years ago and strangers helped me out. Blessings.
Wishing you the best. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from Lagos
shared this with my family. Put this on a community board in San Jose this morning.
stay strong. Shared this with my family. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Thinking of Mekelle.
Sending good thoughts. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Pasig.