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Weekly meals for students and shift workers in Ciudad de México

Julián runs a volunteer pantry feeding 377 families; this fund restocks shelves for the winter.

🇲🇽 Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico1,341 views
Julián L. Contreras
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Ciudad de México
Since 2019, our volunteer team has run Neighbors' Pantry every Sunday from the back of a school canteen. We started with 26 families, and now we feed 377 each week. Donations have dropped by about 55% this winter, 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 Ciudad de México 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 $900 goes: • Rice, beans, flour and oil (wholesale): $380 • Fresh vegetables and fruit: $290 • Baby formula and diapers: $150 • Refrigeration and electricity: $80 If you're reading this, thank you.

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  • Sérgio Heitor Gomes 🇧🇷 · $100
  • Kwaku Mensah Owusu 🇬🇭 · $30

    “From my family to yours. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Obuasi”

  • Reem Ibrahim 🇪🇬 · $10
  • Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $20
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $200
  • Sakura Takeda 🇯🇵 · $20
  • Ratul Omar Ali 🇧🇩 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
  • Quang Hiếu Do 🇻🇳 · $50

    “Hang in there. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Hải Phòng”

  • Francesco Daniele Ferrari 🇮🇹 · $20

    “God bless. - Turin”

  • Hannah W. Garcia 🇺🇸 · $25

    “Hope this helps. Only $25 but hope it helps. - Austin”

  • Marta S. Villalobos 🇨🇴 · $46
  • Margaret Janet Kiprop 🇰🇪 · $25
  • Ngozika Lilian Nwosu 🇳🇬 · $10
  • Eun-kyung Shin 🇰🇷 · $10

    “God bless. Thought of Julián all day after reading this. - Seoul”

  • Nadine Engel 🇩🇪 · $5

    “Only $5 but hope it helps. - Regensburg”

  • Anonymous 🇬🇭 · $30
  • Paula P. Treviño 🇺🇸 · $10
  • Amaka Kehinde Aliyu 🇳🇬 · $15
  • Flávio Brito 🇧🇷 · $10

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  • More neighborhoods should do this. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Campinas.

    • Wishing you the best, Julián. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from Łódź

      • You're not alone. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Ciudad de México

        • Thanks for sharing this, Julián. This could happen to any of us. We're a small family in Nice but we're thinking of you.

          • Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. After 21 years in nursing I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Love from Tucson.

            • So sorry you're going through this, Julián. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings.

              • great idea, hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Greetings from Los Angeles

                • Sending strength, Julián. This could happen to any of us

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