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Help Raffaele keep the Neighbors' Pantry pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for students and shift workers in Verona.
🇮🇹 Verona, Veneto, Italy2,808 views
Since 2019, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Tuesday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 17 families, and now we feed 171 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 60% this school holidays, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 11 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Verona market and keep every receipt.
Each $35 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 $2,050 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $970
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $390
• Baby formula and diapers: $380
• Refrigeration and electricity: $310
Glad we found this place.
- Raffaele
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- Anonymous 🇰🇷 · $75
“You got this. Hope the June deadline works out. - Incheon”
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- Todd Dixon 🇺🇸 · $50
“Stay strong. Thought of Raffaele all day after reading this.”
- David G. Prescott 🇬🇧 · $50
- Hélène Dominique Michel 🇫🇷 · $44
“Hope things get better. Hope the June deadline works out. - Toulouse”
- Anonymous 🇩🇪 · $30
“Rooting for you. Thought of Raffaele all day after reading this. - Berlin”
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- Mónica H. Velasco 🇺🇸 · $25
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- João Leonardo Rocha 🇧🇷 · $25
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Raffaele all day after reading this. - Santos”
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“Rooting for you. Thought of Raffaele all day after reading this. - Rawalpindi”
- Beau P. Carter 🇺🇸 · $20
“Stay strong. Hope the June deadline works out. - Nashville”
- Claudia K. Duarte 🇺🇸 · $20
- Liam Hatfield 🇺🇸 · $20
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Thanks for sharing this, Raffaele. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Verona.
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I have a 12 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Greetings from Los Angeles.
Sending strength, Raffaele. Great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from Hawassa.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Cleveland.
Hope you get there. It's not much but it's yours. Greetings from Leicester