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Weekly meals for neighbors in need in Mannheim
Renate runs a volunteer pantry feeding 297 families; this fund restocks shelves for the rainy season.
🇩🇪 68160, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany2,966 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run Community Pantry every Wednesday from the back of the old library basement. We started with 25 families, and now we feed 297 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 33% this rainy season, while the line has grown every single week.
We rely on volunteers - 17 of us - and keep no salaries or overhead. I buy staples at wholesale prices at the Mannheim market and keep every receipt.
Each $30 feeds a family of four for a week.
All of the funds go to groceries, fresh produce, and cold-storage costs.
Where the $1,800 goes:
• Fresh vegetables and fruit: $470
• Refrigeration and electricity: $150
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $1,180
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
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- Mykola Boris Kozlov 🇷🇺 · $5
“Get well soon. Only $5 but hope it helps. - Moscow”
- Hazel F. Booker 🇺🇸 · $20
“Rooting for you. - Bronx”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
- Delilah Chambers 🇺🇸 · $30
“Thought of Renate all day after reading this. - Springfield”
- Priya A. Pandey 🇮🇳 · $20
- Ji-woo Seo-yeon Do 🇺🇸 · $10
- Priscila Francisca Santos 🇧🇷 · $30
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $200
- Rolando D. Hernandez 🇵🇭 · $75
- Rose Halima Lyimo 🇰🇪 · $71
“Only $71 but hope it helps. - Nairobi”
- Anonymous 🇦🇷 · $30
- Dola Fatema Ghosh 🇧🇩 · $200
- Cheikh Konaté 🇫🇷 · $10
- Manon Paul 🇫🇷 · $10
“Get well soon. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Toulouse”
- Tejal S. Bhatt 🇮🇳 · $25
- Anonymous 🇩🇪 · $75
- Karim Kamrul Miah 🇮🇳 · $25
- Venkat B. Mohan 🇮🇳 · $10
- Brandon Palmer 🇨🇦 · $50
- Iris Saar Van der Horst 🇳🇱 · $10
“Every little bit! - Utrecht”
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Rooting for you, Renate. This could happen to any of us. Blessings.
wishing you peace, Renate. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from Guarulhos.
Good luck, Renate. Your post was clear and honest. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Mannheim
So sorry you're going through this. Gave what I could, wish it was more. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. All the best.