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Help Zinhle keep the Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry stocked
The Bread & Beans Kitchen pantry in Soweto is running low just as demand rises; $950 will stock it for 12 weeks.
🇿🇦 Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa1,614 views
Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Tuesday from the back of the mosque courtyard. We started with 16 families, and now we feed 349 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 52% this harvest gap, 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 Soweto 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 $950 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $520
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $300
• Baby formula and diapers: $90
• Refrigeration and electricity: $40
Thank you so much.
- Zinhle
Updates from Zinhle
Update from Soweto: we've started the first stage. We're at 58% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Wanted to say thank you properly. 47% funded and the first invoice got paid this week.
Quick update: $140 raised so far (15%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
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- Onyango Mukasa Kimani 🇰🇪 · $62
- Anil E. Bajwa 🇮🇳 · $50
- Silke Birgit Weber 🇩🇪 · $50
- Tania Tahmina Uddin 🇧🇩 · $50
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- Araceli G. Ochoa 🇲🇽 · $50
- Sayali Chavan 🇮🇳 · $31
- Lily G. Walsh 🇬🇧 · $30
- Siyabonga B. Mazibuko 🇿🇦 · $30
- Wangari Mwanaisha Salim 🇺🇬 · $30
- Rabia Hatice Aydın 🇹🇷 · $25
- Rocío L. Robles 🇲🇽 · $25
- Joshua J. Ocampo 🇵🇭 · $25
- Halima Winnie Karanja 🇺🇬 · $23
- Erica G. Castro 🇵🇭 · $20
- Tadesse Girma Shiferaw 🇪🇹 · $20
- Raffaella Galli 🇮🇹 · $15
- Naresh Sudip Pandey 🇳🇵 · $15
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $14
- Zainab Ghada Hegazy 🇲🇦 · $10
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Zinhle
Sure. The biggest one is rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale), $520. The rest is in the list at the bottom of the post and I'll upload receipts as I pay each one. Fair thing to want to know.
Shared this with my family. Greetings from Kasarani.
Sending good thoughts. It takes guts to ask. Well done. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home
Rooting for you, Zinhle. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Greetings from Johannesburg.