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Weekly meals for families and seniors in São Paulo
Sérgio runs a volunteer pantry feeding 384 families; this fund restocks shelves for the rainy season.
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Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Monday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 22 families, and now we feed 384 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 54% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 14 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.
I'll post the weekly shopping receipts and a photo of the shelves each Sunday.
Where the $750 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $280
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $230
• Baby formula and diapers: $165
• Refrigeration and electricity: $75
Thank you so much.
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- Lakmal Samarasinghe 🇱🇰 · $75
- Valentina K. Gomez 🇺🇸 · $50
“Get well soon. Thought of Sérgio all day after reading this. - Springfield”
- Edilene Fabiana Silva 🇧🇷 · $50
- Angelo H. Pangilinan 🇵🇭 · $46.50
- Yusuf Salim Nabulsi 🇪🇬 · $31
- Noreen Lodhi 🇵🇰 · $27
- Katherine C. Perkins 🇺🇸 · $15
“Good luck. From Hialeah with love. - Hialeah”
- Manuela Francisca Soares 🇧🇷 · $15
- Liliana F. Quiroga 🇺🇸 · $10
- Jayanthi K. Gowda 🇮🇳 · $5
- Sultana Rima Jahan 🇮🇳 · $5
- Eduardo B. Ríos 🇪🇸 · $5
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Best of luck. This could happen to any of us. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money!
hope things get better soon, Sérgio. Your post was clear and honest. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Greetings from Johannesburg.
Shared this with my family. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of São Paulo.