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Weekly meals for families and seniors in San Francisco
The Community Pantry pantry in San Francisco is running low just as demand rises; $1,700 will stock it for 8 weeks.
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Since 2021, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Friday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 12 families, and now we feed 286 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 54% this rainy season, 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 San Francisco market and keep every receipt.
Each $30 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 $1,700 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $780
• Refrigeration and electricity: $330
• Baby formula and diapers: $590
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Noor
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- Tania Tamanna Talukder 🇮🇳 · $50
- Sachin C. Dhawan 🇮🇳 · $10
- Ana Edilene Xavier 🇧🇷 · $30
“Only $30 but hope it helps. - Juiz de Fora”
- Teklu Alemu 🇪🇹 · $5
- Noemi Lucia Farina 🇮🇹 · $50
“Blessings. I'm in Latina, thinking of you.”
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $50
- Temitope Damilola Danjuma 🇳🇬 · $50
“Stay strong. Only $50 but hope it helps. - Wudil”
- Colton N. Leonard 🇺🇸 · $23
- Aarón M. Franco 🇪🇸 · $10
“Hope this helps! - Girona”
- Leonardo Cohen 🇬🇧 · $20
- Masud Sabbir Islam 🇧🇩 · $50
- Jose P. Henderson 🇨🇦 · $29.50
“Wishing you the best. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Vancouver”
- Tanvir Liton Sen 🇧🇩 · $10
- Jonas Finn Arnold 🇩🇪 · $100
- Zoë Scholten 🇳🇱 · $50
- Rajesh N. Raju 🇮🇳 · $20
- Fernando J. Hernandez 🇵🇭 · $5
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Wegayehu Sosina Girma 🇪🇹 · $50
“From Bahir Dar with love. - Bahir Dar”
- Bogdan Dumitru 🇷🇴 · $10
“Be well. Gave what I could this week. - București”
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is fresh vegetables and fruit the biggest cost or is there more coming?
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. fresh vegetables and fruit is the biggest at $780. Good question.
good luck, Noor. Great idea, hope you get there. My husband and I read this together. God bless
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Noor?
Thank you. If you're in San Francisco I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. I'll keep the page updated.
More neighborhoods should do this. After 21 years in accounting I know how hard it is to ask for anything. All the best.
you're not alone, Noor. This could happen to any of us. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
Stay strong. I hope things turn around soon. Sent it to 33 people at work.
hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Love from Bakersfield.
hope it all works out. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I went through something like this 9 years ago and strangers helped me out