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Help Sergio keep the Neighbors' Pantry pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in St. Petersburg.
🇺🇸 St. Petersburg, Florida, United States2,048 views
Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Thursday from the back of a community center. We started with 9 families, and now we feed 93 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 32% this winter, 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 St. Petersburg market and keep every receipt.
Each $45 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $2,650 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,400
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $810
• Baby formula and diapers: $440
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
- Sergio
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- Ibrahim Rashid Mansour 🇪🇬 · $10
- Angel Craig 🇦🇺 · $21
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $50
“Only $50 but hope it helps. - Badagry”
- Anonymous 🇹🇿 · $25
- Teresita D. Pangilinan 🇵🇭 · $100
- Afshan Mehwish Chaudhry 🇵🇰 · $25
- Mabel Agyeman 🇬🇭 · $10
- Abdullah Karim Taha 🇪🇬 · $30
“Praying for you. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Cairo”
- Ronaldo Felipe Gomes 🇧🇷 · $20
- Rocío K. Flores 🇪🇸 · $50
“All the best. Hope you get the rest soon. - Tarragona”
- Vasanthi E. Sivakumar 🇮🇳 · $10
- Sandra Jemima Sackey 🇬🇭 · $25
- Marisa De Angelis 🇮🇹 · $25
- Valentina Letícia Santos 🇧🇷 · $58.50
- Fitria Wulan Salim 🇮🇩 · $50
- Maverick Willis 🇬🇧 · $10
- Karin Johanna Jäger 🇩🇪 · $10
- Snehal H. Kulkarni 🇮🇳 · $20.50
“Happy to help. Thought of Sergio all day after reading this.”
- Joaquín L. Tapia 🇨🇴 · $30
- Da-eun Eun-kyung Min 🇰🇷 · $5
“God bless - Busan”
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So sorry you're going through this. Great idea, hope you get there. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out
Rooting for you, Sergio. Great idea, hope you get there. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of St. Petersburg.
Rooting for you. Shared this with my family. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care.
Sending strength, Sergio. Hope this works out for you.