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Weekly meals for families facing hunger in Kyoto

Mai runs a volunteer pantry feeding 193 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.

🇯🇵 Kyoto, Japan1,007 views
Mai Mio Hasegawa
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Since 2022, our volunteer team has run Bread & Beans Kitchen every Friday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 23 families, and now we feed 193 each week. Donations have dropped by about 47% this harvest gap, while the line has grown every single week. We rely on volunteers - 18 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Kyoto market and keep every receipt. Each $20 feeds a family of four for a week. All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs. Where the $1,350 goes: • Refrigeration and electricity: $150 • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $880 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $320 Thank you for reading my story.
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  • Amit J. Kashyap

    Hang in there, Mai. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless.

    • Hiền Linh Lieu

      Good luck, Mai. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Greetings from Cairo

      • Collins Joseph KessyPhoto verified

        Hope it all works out, Mai. Hope this works out for you. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.

        • Dieter Horst Engel

          Hope it all works out. Your post was clear and honest. Put this on a community board in Rennes this morning. Thinking of Kyoto

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