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Weekly meals for neighbors in need in Nashik
Suresh runs a volunteer pantry feeding 304 families; this fund restocks shelves for the harvest gap.
🇮🇳 Nashik, Maharashtra, India174 views
Since 2020, our volunteer team has run the Second Helping every Monday from the back of a borrowed garage. We started with 10 families, and now we feed 304 each week.
Donations have dropped by about 54% this harvest gap, 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 Nashik 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 $450 goes:
• Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $320
• Refrigeration and electricity: $30
• Baby formula and diapers: $100
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Suresh
Updates from Suresh
Quick update: $23 raised so far (5%). I made the first payment toward baby formula and diapers. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($73 in total) we've started the first stage. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Susana K. Castro 🇲🇽 · $32
- Wangari Imani Nakamya 🇰🇪 · $50
“Thought of Suresh all day after reading this. - Embakasi”
- Yodit Mulu Demissie 🇪🇹 · $23
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More neighborhoods should do this. Wish I lived closer to Bhaktapur so I could bring a meal. All the best.
Hang in there, Suresh. Shared it with a few friends. Sent it to 24 people at work. God bless.
wishing you peace. Great idea, hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. All the best.