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Help Sônia keep the the Thursday Table pantry stocked
Help keep a free food pantry open for elderly neighbors in São Paulo.
🇧🇷 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil1,090 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run the Thursday Table every Tuesday from the back of a community center. We started with 15 families, and now we feed 94 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 59% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the São Paulo market and keep every receipt.
Each $10 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $1,150 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $590
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $290
• Baby formula and diapers: $200
• Refrigeration and electricity: $70
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Sônia
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- Marwan Zakaria Nasser 🇪🇬 · $100
- Anonymous 🇦🇺 · $100
- Bennett P. Kim 🇬🇧 · $50
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $48
- Ignacio E. Vásquez 🇺🇸 · $30
- Kobina Raymond Obeng 🇬🇭 · $25
- Yanti Sari Hartono 🇮🇩 · $25
“Get well soon. Small amount but sent with love. - Malang”
- Gizem Büşra Aslan 🇹🇷 · $25
- Peter Okello Bakari 🇰🇪 · $25
“Thinking of you. My colleague told me about this one. - Kakamega”
- Mythili T. Acharya 🇮🇳 · $25
- Ilaria Piras 🇮🇹 · $25
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $21
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $21
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $20
- Isaac Yaw Alhassan 🇬🇭 · $20
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Sônia all day after reading this. - Kumasi”
- Taylor H. Jenkins 🇺🇸 · $20
- Ratna Dinda Siahaan 🇮🇩 · $20
- Ezra J. Jimenez 🇺🇸 · $10
- Damian Antoni Jakubowski 🇵🇱 · $10
- Naoki Shota Goto 🇯🇵 · $10
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Take care, Sônia. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. It's not much but it's yours. God bless.
Great idea, hope you get there. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of São Paulo.
great idea, hope you get there. Sent it to 23 people at work