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Weekly meals for neighbors in need in Manukau
The the Harvest Pantry pantry in Manukau is running low just as demand rises; $1,250 will stock it for 10 weeks.
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Since 2023, our volunteer team has run the Harvest Pantry every Saturday from the back of a school canteen. We started with 30 families, and now we feed 138 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 50% this winter, 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 Manukau market and keep every receipt.
Each $50 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 $1,250 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $700
• Refrigeration and electricity: $120
• Baby formula and diapers: $430
Glad we found this place.
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- Anonymous 🇬🇭 · $10
- Landon Bowman 🇺🇸 · $10
- Clodagh Lyons 🇮🇪 · $10
- Ren Hiroto Abe 🇯🇵 · $10
“Wish I could do more. Hope the December deadline works out. - Yokohama”
- Kamrul Sajib Uddin 🇮🇳 · $75
“Get well soon. Only $75 but hope it helps. - Salem”
- Elaine Luciana Correia 🇧🇷 · $10
- Elżbieta Helena Mazurek 🇵🇱 · $10
“Hang in there. Saw your post and had to give. - Katowice”
- Vadym Timur Romanov 🇺🇦 · $20
“Rooting for you. Only $20 but hope it helps. - Zaporizhzhia”
- Haris Siddiqui 🇵🇰 · $50
- Nazrul Imran Barua 🇧🇩 · $10
- Aisha Ife Oyelaran 🇳🇬 · $10
- Janet Theresa Nti 🇬🇭 · $15
- Krystyna Dorota Walczak 🇵🇱 · $20
- Yonas Amanuel Abate 🇪🇹 · $25
- Zahid Mohammad Chowdhury 🇧🇩 · $20
“Hope this helps. Thought of Gabriella all day after reading this. - Comilla”
- Shivam S. Sethi 🇮🇳 · $25
- John Paul C. Santos 🇺🇸 · $25
“Good luck. Thought of Gabriella all day after reading this. - Dallas”
- Simone Débora Cardoso 🇧🇷 · $50
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $16
“Blessings. Only $16 but hope it helps. - Uberlândia”
- Keith G. Calloway 🇺🇸 · $48
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Hope things get better soon, Gabriella. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I hope December is when things finally get easier
Best of luck. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Manukau.
Sending good thoughts, Gabriella. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Ogbomosho but we're thinking of you.
Sending strength. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless.
Rooting for you, Gabriella. Great idea, hope you get there. After 30 years in social work I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Take care.
take care. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Greetings from Mandeville.
Rooting for you, Gabriella. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Put this on a community board in Berlin this morning. Love from Berlin!