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Weekly meals for neighbors in need in Makati
The Neighbors' Pantry pantry in Makati is running low just as demand rises; $450 will stock it for 8 weeks.
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Since 2023, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Sunday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 24 families, and now we feed 75 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 50% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 19 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Makati market and keep every receipt.
Each $5 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 $450 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $185
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $175
• Baby formula and diapers: $90
Every share and every dollar helps.
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- Hanna Mekdes Taye 🇪🇹 · $50
- Emery E. Morgan 🇨🇦 · $20
“Hope the January deadline works out. - Hamilton”
- Jimena C. Ibarra 🇨🇴 · $25
- Dylan G. Schultz 🇺🇸 · $10
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Ronnie all day after reading this.”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $5
“Thought of Ronnie all day after reading this. - London”
- Noémie Solène Perrin 🇨🇦 · $10
- Silviu Tudor Vasile 🇷🇴 · $78.50
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $75
“Stay strong. Thought of Ronnie all day after reading this. - Mumbai”
- Milena Galina Kravchenko 🇷🇺 · $10
“God bless. My cousin told me about this one. - Moscow”
- Pilar M. Zamora 🇺🇸 · $10
- Teresa N. Herrera 🇲🇽 · $10
- Paweł Wiktor Nowak 🇵🇱 · $100
- Tatiane Priscila Miranda 🇧🇷 · $5
“Good luck. Hope you get the rest soon. - Guarulhos”
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $200
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hope it all works out, Ronnie. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Makati.
thinking of you. It takes guts to ask. Well done. All the best.