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Help Pamela keep the Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Sacramento.
🇺🇸 California, United States6,616 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Thursday from the back of a community center. We started with 10 families, and now we feed 71 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 33% this school holidays, 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 Sacramento market and keep every receipt.
Each $45 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 $4,100 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $2,450
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $970
• Baby formula and diapers: $300
• Refrigeration and electricity: $380
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Pamela
Updates from Pamela
We're at 58% thanks to 59 of you. the plan for baby formula and diapers is now scheduled. More news soon.
- Patricia Pangilinan 🇵🇭 · $250
- Tetiana Yana Kiselev 🇷🇺 · $200
- Ksenia Valentyna Smirnov 🇷🇺 · $200
- Lydia K. Carroll 🇺🇸 · $200
- Miguel Ferreira 🇧🇷 · $100
“Sending love. My cousin told me about this one. - Petrópolis”
- Phương Hiền Ha 🇻🇳 · $100
- Adriana Guerrero 🇪🇸 · $100
- Lidia Anastasia Sorokin 🇷🇺 · $100
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $100
- Irene Linda Osei 🇬🇭 · $100
“Take care of yourselves. Only $100 but hope it helps. - Tamale”
- Rita Pellegrino 🇮🇹 · $100
“My mother told me about this one. - Salerno”
- Nisha Pandey 🇮🇳 · $100
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $100
- Achieng Rose Mutebi 🇰🇪 · $75
- Werner Niklas Otto 🇩🇪 · $75
- Karin Corrie De Vries 🇳🇱 · $75
- Tamanna Shefali Sheikh 🇮🇳 · $75
- Gustavo Delgado 🇲🇽 · $73
“Wishing you the best. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Irapuato”
- Nazia Eman Lodhi 🇵🇰 · $68
- Daniel Fikru Belay 🇪🇹 · $66.50
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Rooting for you, Pamela. Looking forward to the next update. All the best.
Sending strength. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.